When I saw Argo on the new release list I knew I wanted to
watch it. I usually do not watch this
kind of action, spy, recent history movies by myself. M is both more knowledgeable and more
interested in the events that I can review the details with him through and
after the movie. But hey. I could not stop watching it now that it was
right in front of me. Too many
American’s had asked me about the movie, whether or not it was real. Last one was my boss’s boss’s boss. I needed to know what they were talking
about. I was a new born when it all
happened in the history.
The movie started by a brief history of the past 55 years of
Iran in 5 minutes until 34 years ago, the revolution in 1979. Then it focused on the day that the students
occupied the American embassy and apparently 6 Americans fled the building
before they got caught and got housed by the Canadian ambassador. The story was about a CIA plot to bring those
back to the United States.
I enjoyed the movie actually. The suspense, the uncertainty, the montage
and scenes in the movie; I thought that was actually really nice as there were
many real depictions of Iran the way I remember in the early years of my life
which were the early years of the revolution too. The violence in the bazaar and then in the
airport were not unfamiliar although for sure seemed pretty exaggerated.
It was an amazing plot indeed, to go a country you have no
right in and pretend you are filmmakers and take out the refugees as the film
crew. I had no idea this happened in
real life. On the other hand, it was an
interesting depiction of the political games.
Even the CIA mission was a game of politics the lives of people were
second to the glory of the country. The
mission was not always saving Americans’ lives, not when the game, if called
out, could be assumed lame in the eyes of the world. But the CIA agent at the mission decided to
go through with it and then it was a matter of minutes to reach and convince
the president’s office to approve of the game.
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