Compromises and not only... Edgar Hoover is the director of the FBI, a great master of detective business. He turned the tedious work of collecting data on people into a creative act. His dream was to have dirt on everyone. By the age of 50, he became a master of information pressing.
He remained bureau director under eight presidents, and not one dared to remove him. Because for each he had ' something was' Hoover acted as a true pragmatist - in the name of achieving goals, everything that is profitable is suitable: intrigue, cunning, duplicity. This cross ... provided a career climb.
Twelve Lessons from Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI E. Medvedev
Peeking through the keyhole about business behind closed doors? Eavesdropping, hiding behind tight curtains secret secrets? Oh, yeah. It was. It's always been. All the time. A long time ago. With kings, with kings... Cleopatra of Egypt (see the 1963 film with Elizabeth Taylor). And even before. Well, how... such a treat for the mind. Such a sweetness of sophistication. Spying? Yeah, what do you say? No, just to know the truth. From false cleansing thoroughly ' subject '. That's all.
What a person wants to be in the eyes of others, and what he is in essence without induced gloss - two differences. Yeah, yeah, two big differences. The Emperor's Code is a Spanish-French film about that. The age of kings, the centuries of kings, are left to historians to examine. The director immerses the viewer in the current realities of Spanish society. Madrid, Bilbao, Europe. We're here and there. After Juan (Luis Tosar) we move. Who is he? Special agent? A shadow figure up some boss's sleeve, bonza? Looks like it. Working for a private person? For the state corporation 'pashet'? Not clear. It's not clear. Or maybe one and two at the same time? And here and there food bites? Probably.
The mechanism of work of special services in civil society? Exactly. Enter someone else's house? No problem. How? There's nothing easier... Get a wire? Is it technically secure? It's their bread. The bread of these guys. ABC ' First Class ' Schools. Their schools.
What's compromising? How is it used? It's here too. That's now, too. Secret mechanisms and springs of politics - the intrigue of the film. And this one's on the hook, and this one and the other. Anyone who has any interest is under the hood. Under the hood.
Informative? Yeah. Drive? Yeah.
But the movie isn't just about that. There's got to be personal work. Absolutely. No other way. And crumpling the life of the main character with confidence in the wasteland of the home, relations with a woman, suspicion of the inviolability of his own hearth ... Victim of the system? What is your future?
7 out of 10