Later #55 a movie: 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'

Saw the movie, ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,’ the Le Carre novel set in Britain in 1973 in the midst of the ‘spy-v-spy’ phony wars of intelligence, counter-intelligence and counter-counter-intelligence during the Cold War era. This is a complex plot in which a ‘misnomic’ George Smiley is assigned to unravel the identity of a mole located in the British secret service named The Circus. While the plot is difficult to follow, you will be amazed with the detail of the 1970s set, as our characters navigate the labyrinthine halls of the dim, grey, smoke-filled bureaucratic environs of the pre-computer age. This spying business is serious stuff and so are our characters, as they fight the modern war which no longer features trenches and battlefields. If you have time to pause afterwards to think about our heroes and anti-heroes, then you will be asking for a second viewing: a kind of slow envelopment that keeps flowing long after the ending. See this movie after sinking a coffee or two. 7/10.

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