Movies & TV Dec 22, 2011 at 4:00 am

The Moody Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY British seeeeeeeecrets.

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George Smiley, the classic British spy.
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The movie is junk. Moreover, while it appears to give us a period piece it contains pointless or pointed anachronisms and source text changes.

The feminist graffiti that distracts in one scene is anachronistic and draws viewer attention away from narrative.

Karla was never in custody of the Americans much less tortured by them. That's just thrown in as a wave to the similarly mindless.

Peter Guilliam is not gay in the book or prior film version much less a foppish Portland-style hipster/metro-sexual in dress. He simply couldn't have swanned around England and Europe at that time in that trade dressed and styled as he is in the film.

I could go on, but the crowded and merciless flotsam that has washed up upon the screen is really the product of minds sort of guessing about what adults used to behave, how they dressed, and how they thought.

It is also an ugly waste of Gary O and Tim Roth.

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