Film · United Artists · 1963
Pass it on
From Russia with Love
33Leave it.
A tighter plot than the gadgets that followed. The same use of a woman as equipment.
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The review
A decoding machine and a woman are both bait, and he is sent because he is the man the other side thinks can be caught with the second. The plot is tighter than the films that followed, and the tightness is a craft I can name without endorsing the man. People are killed as moves. The woman is a move who is allowed to become fond of him, which the film treats as a happy development rather than as a further use.
Adults who want the lineage of the series can see where the formula locked in. A house does not need the lineage. If a teenager already saw the later ones and thinks this is the serious one, grant the tighter story and withhold the compliment to the man. Serious about a mission is not the same as serious about a person. The woman was equipment that lived. That is not a romance.
Journal
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The glance
Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
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Consider this
North by Northwest
48 instead of 33
North by Northwest is still a thriller film, and it scores 48 instead of 33. What you gain is stewardship: You can inherit a man who stops being ornamental.
The eight
- 6Industry
The mission has steps, and he performs them with a competence the film admires.
- 2Household
She is assigned to him. A person assigned is not a household and not a partner.
- 1Piety
A license covers the killings and the bed. Conscience is not in the budget.
- 6Courage
The train and the trap are dangerous, and he does not spook, which is nerve without a virtue.
- 3Republic
Two agencies and a machine. The public is whoever the explosion is near.
- 2Temperance
Appetite is paid on time, and the film considers that part of the professional package.
- 4Truth
The trap is honest about being a trap. The lie is that this man is the one to trust with it.
- 2Stewardship
Nothing a boy should file under the heading of how a capable adult behaves.
Where to watch
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