It's a meticulous and engulfing process that you get lured through with this film, Tomas Alfredson is brilliant at evoking the lead characters personas into the scenery and mood of a single screen shot. As with his previous film "Let The Right One In" you get this innocent yet fearful vibe at every scene even without the characters showing much in ways of emotion or words spoken, here you have that same quality but with more of a cunning trick being played. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is no average Spy film, evaluated as a living being, it could be described as an undercover agent of a film piece.
As with most genre identity's you cannot help having some tiny expectation being implied because of what work has come before it. But once brought into the comfort and mild camaraderie displayed with this story you have those perceptions of excitement and explosive tension eradicated. That's how this is so cunning, Alfredson manages to make this Spy film disguise itself much like the codeword's used through out (CIRCUS being the name used for MI-6). Part of the way through you could easily forget yourself and think with all its quaint slow melody that its identity is actually that of a Dramatic Romance. Its a real wolf in sheep's clothing, using mellow laid back scenery with very subtle hints of thrill to keep you aware that it does mean business. As opposed to the many that try to scream it at you, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy remains calm and patient.
My excitement was at an ultimate high after seeing "Let the Right One In" and now seeing him create this sinister film genre secret agent. I eagerly await Alfredson's future work.
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