Is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a good movie?

TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY, adapted from John le Carre’s novel, is certainly a very well-made movie and it features some terrific performances but I must admit that I got lost several times.

What is the plot of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

In 1970s England the head of MI6, Control (John Hurt), dispatches an agent (Mark Strong) to meet with a Hungarian general who knows the identity of a Soviet spy in the organization’s ranks. However, the mission goes wrong, and the general dies before he can reveal the information. Undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney) calls veteran agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman) back from forced retirement to ferret out the mole and stop the flow of vital British secrets to the Russians.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy/Film synopsis

What is the theme of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

Just as Let the Right One In presented a surreptitious study of repressed childhood anger disguised in the garb of a neo-gothic vampire tale, so Tinker Tailor buries its central theme of male distrust, duplicity and anxious misidentification within the labyrinthine twists of an international counter-intelligence yarn.”

Is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy boring?

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is not the worst movie ever made. But it is a contender for the most boring. There is neither showing nor telling in Tinker, Tailor. There is just a lot of slow, agonizing slow movement, no linear structure, and no perceptible plot.

Is Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a mystery?

Dread throbs like a heartbeat in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” a superb new adaptation of the 1974 spy novel by John le Carré. le Carré’s labyrinthine book and set in 1973, is a pleasurably sly and involving puzzler — a mystery about mysteries within mysteries.

Why was George Smiley fired?

When Control is eased out of the Circus in late 1972 after the capture of agent Jim Prideaux in Czechoslovakia, Smiley too is forced out. The Circus is taken over by Alleline, with Haydon running “London Station”, a branch overseeing all of the service’s spy networks.

Was George Smiley The Mole?

In September or October 1973, the events of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy take place, with Smiley successfully managing to expose Haydon as the long-term Soviet agent, or “mole”, codenamed “Gerald” and reporting directly to Smiley’s nemesis, Karla, head of Moscow Centre.

Was George Smiley The mole?

Is Smiley The mole?

Description. In contrast to other spies of the era, Smiley is described as being short, overweight, balding, and middle aged, and he is frequently compared to either a toad or a mole.

Why did Prideaux shoot Haydon?

Prideaux does not kill Haydon because he was a traitor to his country, he kills him because he was a traitor to him personally, not just by giving him up to the Russians in Budapest, but because he refused to respond to Prideaux’s homosexual feelings towards him and forced Prideaux to suppress his authentic self.

Who are the actors in the movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?

From left, David Dencik, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, John Hurt (as Control), Gary Oldman (as George Smiley) and Ciaran Hinds in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” Credit… When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.

Who are the actors in the Tinkerbell movies?

“Tinker” is Percy Alleline ( Toby Jones ), “Tailor” is Bill Haydon ( Colin Firth ), “Soldier” is Roy Bland ( Ciaran Hinds ), “Poor Man” is Toby Esterhase ( David Dencik) and “Beggarman” is George Smiley ( Gary Oldman ), Control’s trusted lieutenant.

What is the plot of Tinker Tailor?

The somnambulist gloom of Tinker, Tailor is animated by two chillingly realised setpieces: in one, an agent named Prideaux (Mark Strong) is summoned by the spy-chief Control, played by John Hurt, and ordered to go to Budapest where he is to bring in a Hungarian general who wants to come over to the west and reveal the mole’s identity.

What is the theme of Tinker Tailor by John le Carré?

Mr. le Carré’s seventh novel and the first in his Karla trilogy, “Tinker, Tailor” is set against a geopolitical (and movie) moment that is almost quaintly, reassuringly old-fashioned, a time when enemy agents had names like Boris, and a red flag with a hammer and sickle made the ideological and political stakes clear.