It’s probably just because I’m tired and faceblind, but this movie felt like a pastiche of barely-connected vignettes about spies, building up to a barely noticeable climax, which is funny because I loved the book and I think the movie faithfully captures le carrĂ©’s class and subtlety.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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