Philip Seymour Hoffman's final completed movie casts him as an espionage agent investigating a Chechen immigrant in Hamburg. The main thing that I took from "A Most Wanted Man" is that every government on Earth is forced to take sides in the so-called War on Terrorism. George W. Bush controversially proclaimed "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists". "A Most Wanted Man" author John le Carré was not neutral on this: right before the US invaded Iraq, he wrote an article titled "The United States of America Has Gone Mad". Once it came out that the US had initiated a torture network, it cast doubt on the sincerity of the War on Terrorism. Many of the governments in Europe, including Germany's government, assisted the CIA in this program. As for Chechnya, Russia's wars in Chechnya have been going on since the late 1700s. The Bolsheviks were even worse to the Chechens than the czar's government had been. Stalin's deportation of the Chechens to Kazakhstan - the Chechens' equivalent of the Trail of Tears - pretty much killed any chance of peace between Russia and Chechnya.
It's a good movie, looking at the inner workings of the intelligence world (which became a major issue after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA's surveillance program). I recommend the movie.
It's a good movie, looking at the inner workings of the intelligence world (which became a major issue after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA's surveillance program). I recommend the movie.