| The CIA before it went wrong |
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| written by filmnutt |
November 26, 2005 - 3:51 PM PST |
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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This film, in its semi-documentary appraoach tells the story and defends the idea of the CIA. The writers phrased it during the darkest period of World War II before the Allieds invaded occupied France. Its look at "la resistance" is interesting yet, as in a hollywood film, the good guys are shining angels while the "evildoers" are nasty and sinister. I really liked the story line, which is a cool plot device; although not a mystery, a genre i adore, the little turns of the story made it suspenseful, and as it was shot from a very intimate standpoint, it was not your typical war picture.
Without giving the story away, in the beginning of the film, the bright and clear-eyed young hero's purity and innocence contrasted with the enormous weight of the shadow of nazism across europe in this last century.
This film ranks up there now for me with "The Nuremburg Trials", "Das Boot", "Gallipoli" as powerful poetic views of war. |
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