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| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
Gary Oldman has made an impressive film career, but has never been nominated for an Oscar. The actor who has won BAFTA, Emmy and Independent Spirit Award, could convince the Academy for his role in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, tape in which he portrays a brooding secret agent.
Those who are accustomed to seeing Oldman villain roles ever incarnating, was surprised to see him playing George Smiley, retired spy called back into service to find out who leaked information to the Soviets.
Known as the M16 agent, Smiley is a spy debonair and low profile that goes unnoticed in the seedy world of espionage. In social life, the agent is a quiet person and sad, why his wife leaves him.
The Secret Agent sentimental sorrows are relieved when you return to the "circus", a nickname by which the plant is known to British intelligence. Control (John Hurt), his former chief suspect among his closest collaborators who works there is a traitor for the Soviet Union.
Smiley colleagues suspects are played by top names in British film and Oscar winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech), Toby Jones, David Dencik and Mark Strong. In this male dominated world there is no room for women and when they appear, as the wife of Smiley, are adulterous.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is based on the novel by John Le Carré, English author who devoted himself to writing stories of espionage when he retired from diplomatic service. This work inspired John Le Carré a successful British television series in 1979.
At that time, Alec Guinness Smiley gave life to a seemingly difficult to overcome, but Oldman breaks the paradigm and delivers a character on the big screen is more memorable.
Perhaps part of this achievement is due to the impeccable direction provides Tomas Alfredson, Swedish filmmaker renewed the vampire genre with the film Let the Right One In. Like the horror film, Alfredson creates an atmosphere sordid and melancholy decision this time distance to the commercial cinema spies.
