Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quest for eclipsing the top-level "mole." This movie captures the cold tenseness central to Smith's book, mirroring the rivetting story of Russian policeman Arkady Renko's struggle to solve three seemingly inexplicable murders. Renko, like George Smiley, is an underdog, and during his exhausting investigation he must confront the KGB, international entrepreneurs, a beautiful rebel, and traitors within his own ranks...
...Robner says she loved her murdered husband, but you know she is lying. The proof is in the love note you just intercepted. Ask her about the man who wrote it, and she says she never heard of him. Confront her with his letter, and she changes her tune: "You have certainly stooped to a new low, Inspector, opening other people's mail!" Then she spills her story...
...troubles of Ireland are at a safe distance until one of their own number. Cynthia (whose husband the narrator sleeps with) hitherto considered to be rather weak and characterless--stuns them all with a vicious, almost raving outburst of pent-up emotions. A superbly crafted, extended passage has Cynthia confront her companions with the facts about themselves and a manic account of the viciousness, violence and pervasive sickness of the Irish conflict...
Alfonsin considers himself a frustrated writer and enjoys movies. (His favorite: Hiroshima Man Amour, a 1959 antiwar film by French Director Alain Resnais.) Asked once to elaborate on qualities necessary for leadership, he listed "honesty, courage to confront situations ... not to be ambiguous." He added, "Politics does not give satisfactions except for the sensation of duty accomplished. It is an unhealthy trade. But I believe it is what I should...
Much of the movie succeeds because of director Michael Chapman's willingness to confront seriously the social issues facing his characters. In fact, because he bravely tackles so many issues at once. All the Right Moves often seems more like a series of social statements than the story of an adolescent's struggle to escape the steel mill mentality...