2021年12月7日火曜日

The Courier

In October 2021, I watched The Courier for the first time at Movix Kameari. The American-British spy film is released in 2020 starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

It is based on the true story about Greville Wynne, a businessman in London, who was requested by the Secret Intelligence Service to assist its espionage and got to undertake it.

If an ordinary businessman living for his family's happiness was requested by his nation's intelligence organization to go to a foreign country under the guise of business trips and contact an informant who has classified information, he at first would reluctantly cooperate with it for world peace, gradually have patriotism that he had not done so much, get ready to work for it and finally become friends with the foreign informant. I can imagine that, however, nobody can do the act of chivalry that Mr. Wynne performed for the Soviet spy behind the Cuban Missile Crisis. Basically, it was reckless.

Benedict Cumberbatch gave a wonderful performance as Mr. Wynne who worries about the safety of the traitor to his homeland and continues to struggle even after he has fulfilled his jobs. The acting of Cumberbatch toward the ending especially was really emotional and reminded me of Kevin Bacon acting in Murder in the First.

I had viewed Thirteen Days and JFK, so I thought that I had known about the Cuban Crisis so much, however, the flick was more meaningful because it kind of showed me the role that the actual intelligence organization played behind the American politician's distress. Although I enjoy seeing the activities of super spies like James Bond and Ethan Hunt, yet I am intrigued in doing the ones of real ones like ones in the movie because I can enjoy a sense of more real tension.

The spy motion picture is wonderful and depicts a more serious human drama than the entertaining spy ones like the 007 franchise and the Mission: Impossible series.

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