I hope to have the time and mood to review as many movies as possible from the Oscar nominations list this year, 2016. Mood is always important! I’ll explain this later, in a different short post.
Bridge of Spies is the newest Steven Spielberg movie. More than that, it is written by Ethan and Joel Coen, helped by Matt Charman.
Plot
This movie is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (for Rylance), and Best Original Screenplay. I would have reviewed it even without a place on the Oscars’ nominees list, because I have highly enjoyed everything. It is based on real facts, a plane incident in the sixties involving an American pilot who was taking photos over the Soviet territory and having his plane shot down by the soviets, and some KGB guy who was captured by the FBI in New York. The story is simple and shows the beginning of a procedure which will be used from those times on by the main antagonist forces implicated in what was called “Cold War”.
Bridge of Spies Cast
Bridge of Spies – Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance
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It stars Tom Hanks as “James B. Donovan”, a very good insurance lawyer who is convinced by his boss (Alda) to defeat Rudolf Abel in the spy trial intended against him by the US Government, Mark Rylance as “Rudolf Abel”, an alleged spy who was actually a KGB colonel never acknowledged by the Soviet Union as such, Scott Shepherd as “Hoffman”, a spook, a bodyguard, a CIA middleman, a watcher, whatever, he was Tom Hank’s shadow in this movie, Amy Ryan as “Mary McKenna Donovan”, Donovan’s wife, Sebastian Koch as “Wolfgang Vogel”, a Stazi dummkopf who posed as a lawyer in the DDR, Alan Alda as “Thomas Watters”, Donovan’s boss, Austin Stowell as “Francis Gary Powers”, a pilot captured by the soviets.
Bridge of Spies – poster
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The movie seems somber, but it is very nicely made, I mean that Schindler’s List was a lot somber. Even if I prefer The Revenant for Best Picture, if Bridge of Spies will win, it will not be a mistake. It takes the watcher through a spirit and a philosophy which happened not long ago. The East Germans were under the Soviet boot, and they were afraid for their own shadows sometimes, but they were good people. You’ll witness the beginnings of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of soviet oppression in that part of Germany. It is very nice acted, Tom Hanks is really good (not being nominated this year), and Mark Rylance is even better.
Bridge of Spies Trailer
Here you have the trailer which I consider not very spoiling:
Highly recommended, it is a very good movie, and with all the cold war really darkish gray subject, it has a very humanitarian and positive message.
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