![]() ![]() ![]() Saving Pitt is politically "wrong" but he does it anyway because Pitt is his friend. The rescue mission is Redford reclaiming a personal sense of motivation from a career of morbid statecraft. The film doesn't try to parse out the moral arguments for murderous black ops warfare, it just uses the characters and contrasts Redford, as a bureaucrat who's bought into the system for years but has no satisfaction to show for it besides his retirement account, versus Pitt, who's still a rookie in comparison because he hasn't blanked out his empathy. ![]() Whatever the moral judgment that deed deserves, the same can surely be cast upon Pitt and Redford's characters, who also spend the lives of others in pursuit of the CIA's political agenda. Catherine McCormack's character didn't intend to kill people in her political bombing, they were collateral damage. Spy Game draws a parallel between all the spy games it encompasses. My gut reaction is: well of course there's consequences, we see the CIA bureaucrats going "Oh Christ," but that's just another day at the office for those pricks, isn't it? Morally speaking, the rescue mission which throws away lives for the sake of a higher purpose that only has meaning to a few, that's indistinguishable from anything else the CIA does. ![]()
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