Seen on 06-03-13 on Pix
--until way past middle, we didn't realize we had seen this already and liked it too. But we enjoyed seeing it again without quitting after the realist ion.
--In the CIA culture of international espionage, local help is picked up, personal relationships cultivated and treated as "assets" and, when it becomes necessary, ruthlessly sacrificed without qualms. Brad Pitt who has Boy Scout background is picked up in Vietnam war (for his sharp shooter skills and intelligence) to train as a CIA operative. He successfully performs several missions in several countries, but in the process he falls in love with a woman while in Bierut. He also decides to quit CIA bec he doesn't like the brutal code of sacrificing the "assets" when it suits the Agency. At this point when his girl friend is taken a prisoner in China (CIA doing? Yes?), he goes on a personal mission of rescuing her but gets caught himself.
It is from this point of present that the film narrative focuses on. Robert Redford, Brad Pitt's superior who is retiring that day is under no obligation to do any thing to rescue him (bec that was a personal mission Brad Pitt went on), although he is scheduled to be executed within 24 hrs, but he does care. And on his last day with CIA, Redford pulls all stops, all underhand means even which could get him court-marshaled (one of which includes forging of CIA director's signature, coupled with using all his life's savings to have his protege and his girl friend rescued from Chinese execution.
The film is all about vindication of allegiance, loyalty and commitment in relationships in the utmost extremities of life's crises. AND IT IS MADE VERY EXCITING.
--until way past middle, we didn't realize we had seen this already and liked it too. But we enjoyed seeing it again without quitting after the realist ion.
--In the CIA culture of international espionage, local help is picked up, personal relationships cultivated and treated as "assets" and, when it becomes necessary, ruthlessly sacrificed without qualms. Brad Pitt who has Boy Scout background is picked up in Vietnam war (for his sharp shooter skills and intelligence) to train as a CIA operative. He successfully performs several missions in several countries, but in the process he falls in love with a woman while in Bierut. He also decides to quit CIA bec he doesn't like the brutal code of sacrificing the "assets" when it suits the Agency. At this point when his girl friend is taken a prisoner in China (CIA doing? Yes?), he goes on a personal mission of rescuing her but gets caught himself.
It is from this point of present that the film narrative focuses on. Robert Redford, Brad Pitt's superior who is retiring that day is under no obligation to do any thing to rescue him (bec that was a personal mission Brad Pitt went on), although he is scheduled to be executed within 24 hrs, but he does care. And on his last day with CIA, Redford pulls all stops, all underhand means even which could get him court-marshaled (one of which includes forging of CIA director's signature, coupled with using all his life's savings to have his protege and his girl friend rescued from Chinese execution.
The film is all about vindication of allegiance, loyalty and commitment in relationships in the utmost extremities of life's crises. AND IT IS MADE VERY EXCITING.
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