[Byron]

“Child 44” is an interesting movie about postwar Soviet Russia and seems to do a passable job in bringing some of the psychological issues of living in a totalitarian system to light. The contradictions of the oppressors and the evasions that people must make to be able to maneuver within such a system.

It also looks at the psychological makeup of an individual who while working within such a system, also has a passion for the truth and the lengths such an individual will go to prove he is right despite the weight of that system bearing down on him.

I thought it was a good movie and a good story.

[Harry Mullin]

Check out Citizen X as well. The story sounds similar

[Byron]

Harry Mullin:

I’d forgotten about that movie, I saw citizen X many years ago and thought it was pretty good. Child 44 is basically the same story without any real investigatory meat. I think citizen X was probably the better movie from a technical crime perspective. Citizen X got more into the psychology of the individual who was perpetrating the crime. But I still thought child 44 was a good movie.

Tom Hardy, the lead in child 44, also played Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and was quite good. It took me two days to remember where I had seen him. That short hair and Russian accent threw me off, that alone was interesting enough as an example of how the brain works or doesn’t as the case may be.

I guess I also recommend the Tom Hardy version of Wuthering Heights. It is, in my opinion, actually better than the Lawrence Olivier version. Hardy is much more rugged and believable as Heathcliff and comes across far crueler than the Olivier character.

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