Some time ago, the news of Japan's dumping of nuclear wastewater was boiling over, and Sister Tiao is still trembling and worried every day. Worry about whether the seafood can be eaten, whether the beach can go... Recently, there was a movie with a nuclear background, so how can you miss such a scene?
But after watching it, it made me feel more ironic, the movie was frantically slapping the Face of the Japanese government, and then they knelt down and shouted in awe, "We are wrong, we will not change, next time dare." It's outrageous!
Without further ado, let's talk about the movie - "The Messenger"
The man was exercising while his wife looked at him questioningly behind his back.
There is a "law" on the Internet: middle-aged men start exercising, either sick or cheating.
The wife suspects it is the latter because the man has a "previous conviction"...
The man's name is Graville, who was previously a detective, and his assistant Watson, cracked many cases, forced Moriarty to die, and then became Doctor Strange by mistake, and after saving the world at the hands of Dormammu and Thanos, he came to London to get married and have children...
Wait, the string is stringed, I just want to tell you the audience lord, the male protagonist is our familiar roll Fu.
Greville did have something to hide from his wife. He was in contact with a Moscow man... Don't think about it, although it is also a British movie, not all British men are curved. Don't look at the human base with rotten eyes!
They are spies, and this is the time of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and they will work together to stop the Cuban missile crisis. Yes, the film is based on real historical events.
Let's jump out of the movie and do a little bit of The Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Cuban Missile Crisis is recognized by the world as the closest global event for mankind to nuclear extinction, and if it is wrong, humanity may lead to racial extinction in nuclear war.
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a frenzied arms race. In 1959, the United States deployed medium-range ballistic missiles in Turkey, which immediately put the Soviet Union in the range of strike.
In the same year, Cuba overthrew the dictatorship of the original government through a military coup and established a new government with Castro at its core.
Castro in his youth
The new regime began with very good relations with the United States, but the good times were short-lived, and cuban relations with the United States broke down with the change of leadership members. The United States originally wanted to win Cuba over to consolidate its power in Latin America, but after the failure of the plan, the United States, enraged, planned the "Bay of Pigs Incident" that shocked the world in April 1961, and carried out a crazy bombing campaign against Cuba, hoping to overthrow the Castro government and establish a "more obedient" new Cuba.
Bay of Pigs Incident
Castro could only turn to the Soviet Union for help, and it was the Bay of Pigs incident that directly led to the Crisis of Cuban Missiles.
In 1962, the Soviet Union smuggled nuclear weapons and related experts to Cuba. Each nuclear missile is 20-30 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
A world nuclear war is on the verge of breaking out...
Back to the movie.
Acting with Greville was Pankovsky, a senior official of the State Council for Scientific Research of the former Soviet Union, who was affiliated with the GRU (a spy organization that competed with the Soviet KGB) code-named "Tin Wood". He loved his country, but was more afraid of nuclear war, and in order to save mankind from nuclear disaster, he sided with the country and secretly informed the CIA of the Soviet Union's deployment of nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Because of their sensitive identities, the Americans could not move freely in the Soviet Union, so they approached MI6 and hoped that the British would help them obtain Soviet intelligence.
So agents from the U.S. CIA and the British MI6 invited the British businessman Greville.
"We need an ordinary salesman, you'd better not know anything, the less you know, the safer it is for you, and even if you are arrested, you are just a messenger." 」
In this way, Graville did his first mission brilliantly and established contact with Pankovsky.
However, because he was too good, Pankovsky designated him as his "Western liaison."
Hearing the news, Greville was resistant...
But the persuasion of the next CIA agents made him waver.
Although they belong to different countries and different camps; although they are just ordinary salesmen, if a nuclear war really breaks out, no one can be left alone, and their families, friends, and even all mankind will become victims.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Graville chose to continue as the "messenger".
This was followed by an exciting cat-and-mouse game in which Graville and Pankovsky risked their lives to send the intelligence out. At the same time, they have to accept questions from their families, their friends' incomprehension, and the interrogation of the intelligence services. During this time, the two formed a deep friendship.
Fortunately, everything went well, the "messenger" escaped safely, and Pankovsky completed the task of passing on the message. Revere returned to London, only to hear that due to the changing situation, the authorities would abandon Pankovsky's "defection plan", which undoubtedly killed him.
Oh, no surprise standard official face.
Unwilling to give up on his friend, Graville decided to return to Moscow and help him escape.
Well, not surprisingly, both were caught.
In prison, Greville was tortured and could only eat soup every day. The guards also took away his bedding, removed the lid of the toilet, and let the smell of excrement fill the room, and occasionally beat Graville. Greville, on the other hand, was tight-lipped, insisting that he was just a messenger and didn't know anything about the communication, just to please the "customers" so he helped them do something...
A few months later, after the efforts of the Foreign Office, Graville's wife came to visit and told him that the "missile crisis" had been lifted and that humanity was free from the nuclear threat.
Despite this, the two are still wearing sinful bodies. In order to obtain more intelligence, Soviet officials arranged for the two sides to meet. Pankovsky, full of guilt, confessed himself because the authorities threatened him with his wife and daughter, but he did not confess to Graville. He felt frustrated, a traitor, and that everything he did made no sense.
Graville said, we succeeded, the missile crisis was lifted, there would be no nuclear war, and everything was over.
A year later, Graville was released in exchange for a Soviet "messenger", Pankovsky was shot and his family was allowed to live in a low profile ...
The real Greville
To be fair, the film's story is relatively bland, the pace is decent, and its powerful shock and impact all come from The personal performance of The Scroll Fu and the background of the film's real events.
I always praise Him for his performance skills that all actors dream of.
First of all, there is professionalism.
This is the figure of a curly fuku who has just been imprisoned,
This is the figure when you get out of prison,
Curly Fu deliberately ate fat for this play, and then lost weight in a short period of time to the point of disfigurement.
Of course, this is what actors should do, Christian Bell, Tom Hanks, Amir Khan, Zhang Yi, Zheng Kai have all had such experiences. But it is this "should do" that is enough to identify the merits of an actor. It's the sacrifice that actors deserve for their roles, and it's also their respect for the profession. I don't know how much more noble than those actors who have broken fingers and bruised knees and say "dedicated".
Secondly, there is acting.
There are many characters in the whole film, but no one can hide the light of The Roll Fu. The most memorable shot for me was the torture in prison. In this scene, the interrogators are in the dark, the rolls are in the light, and there is only one lamp, like a one-man show.
During the interrogation and its repression, Roll Fu was first frank but confused, then surprised and frightened, and finally forbearance and anger, and finally transformed into helplessness. His performances are rich in layers, the transitions are smooth and natural, and multiple emotions are expressed in just a few minutes. Even from the perspective of a God who knows everything, we have to believe that He is innocent.
When the film ends and the subtitles emerge, we are glad that the world was not destroyed. In order to avoid the world from coming to the brink of a nuclear disaster again, the United States and the Soviet Union formulated a special line, and the end of history is a long sigh of relief.
But! This red line is about to be broken by Japan! The United States is still supporting it! Isn't that punching yourself in the face? Countless people have sacrificed their careers, families, and even lives to keep humanity away from the nuclear threat. As a result, Japan dumped nuclear wastewater with only a few bows, ironically, too ironically!