Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man raises the question of how many cigarettes a spy can smoke and also how many drinks he can imbibe and still see straight. Spying is a form of perceiving and if your mind is clouded how are you supposed to pick up the clues you are looking for? Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt was plagued by the same problem of depicting a ponderous character carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. In Hannah Arendt the strug...
Philip Seymour Hoffman's performance in Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man raises the question of how many cigarettes a spy can smoke and also how many drinks he can imbibe and still see straight. Spying is a form of perceiving and if your mind is clouded how are you supposed to pick up the clues you are looking for? Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt was plagued by the same problem of depicting a ponderous character carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. In Hannah Arendt the strug...
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