I recently had the pleasure of previewing The Secret Garden - an independently made spy thriller. The film is inspired by the short story The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, but transplants the themes and existential quandaries of that story into a CIA Cold War setting. While some recent films contain sequences where the characters dwell on the moral and psychological torment of espionage, in The Secret Garden this is as much a part of the story as nuclear terrorism. Instead of being distracted from these questions by exotic locales and flashy action sequences, The Secret Garden contains a greater exploration of the existential problems of international secret agents and agencies than I have seen in any other spy film.(Read more...)The post Review: The Secret Garden appeared first on Spy Culture.
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