Bridge of Spies

Love it

 

I really, really enjoyed this. What stood out to me was not the vilification of the Russians or East Germans, or the rah-rah apple pie that many have commented on, but how hypocritical the whole legal process was around Abel's trial. I think that indictment of the national consciousness of those times was the opposite of apple pie. Hanks was trying to do the right thing, but is ostracized by the public, his legal firm, and even his family to a degree. Hardly places us in a good light.

 

I really liked it.

 

I thought this was one of the best films of the year. Surprised by how quickly it faded from the scene.

 

Really enjoyed this on Blu-ray, and behind the scenes "creating" Cold War look, U-2 spy program.

 

Got the DVD, my expectations were less the second time and enjoyed it more because of that.

 

I watched it online and enjoyed it. Classic film making so out of touch today and appreciated for that very reason!

 

True but within the context of the time, not surprising.

 

on cable this month.

 

Would have been better with Moose and Squirrel.

 

Just saw this for the first time. I thought it was an excellent movie. Recommended!

 

Having lived the first half of the film in a comfortable America (despite slanting passers-by and the above-mentioned shooting at home), Donovan spent the second screen hour in a cold and dangerous Berlin, plying between West and East and conducting intense negotiations between the US, the USSR and East Germany. While the other participants in the deal want to exchange one person for another, Donovan demands that, in exchange for Abel, the USSR let go of Powers, and the GDR - the American student Frederic Pryor caught in the Eastern Territory. To achieve phone tracker application an unequal exchange, of course, is not easy, and the difficult situation of Donovan is aggravated by the surreptitious politico-bureaucratic games of his counterpart in the style of "Here we recognize, we do not recognize it, but here we wrap the fish." The poor fellow even finds it difficult to determine with whom, in fact, he is negotiating and whether his interlocutors are necessary for decision-making by the authorities. But since he can not leave compatriots in the "communist hell" (otherwise depicted by Spielberg, the depressing East Berlin with the just-erected Berlin wall can not be called), Donovan shows all his resourcefulness and all his eloquence in order to achieve the desired result.