Storytelling at it’s mercurial best, ‘The Secret Agent’ is an ode to the kind of cinema that disrupts, enthrals and keeps you engaged in a series of events that sets the tone for difficult and riveting characters that go through pain, transformation and fight against a corrupt system that overhauls human principles and compassion.
The scenes beautifully oscillates between the principal characters and adjacent antagonists who leave no stone unturned to accomplish their act of vengeance and envy while depicting the powerful political landscape in those times.
Though the one leg syndrome was a bit chaotic and lets you believe for few moments if this film is transcending in to a different genre. Otherwise, for most parts, it sticks to the plot and the troubled characters.
Wagner Moura delivers a restrained, understated performance as the protagonist on the run, trying to defend his family and honour while painfully seeping through the powerful, diabolical system and its people.
This kind of cinema is not for everyone, so admiring this genre in a such an elusive, de-glamourised version might be a hard pill to swallow for most of them. But for me, it symbolises the very essence of cinema – perilously vulnerable and dramatic.
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