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Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis

Directed By: John Boorman

It doesn’t give us much satisfaction when we ended up creating stories at the spur of the moment for someone else fancy. But this sort of thing happens to many people just by the slip of their tongue. How far can you take a lie? Will you be able to stretch it till just wobbles around? Another thing you need to know how gullible are the people who listen to these lies? Are they waiting for that perfect lie so that they can spin it on their own?

The film centers on a web of lies that starts simply from the humble workplace of a Tailor. It is a story of a compulsive liar who just couldnt keep his trap shut. The Tailor is played by the sharply manipulative Geoffrey Rush who concocts these series of lies for the eager ears of a MI-6 spy played by Pierce Brosnan. The whole story is brilliantly written by John Le Carre who is the master of deceit and sabotage. But the story doesn’t just delve into the lies there is an interesting twist to the stories proceedings in the form of Uncle Benny played by the magical Harold Pinter. The film takes some unfamiliar turns with Harold Pinter in the background begging the tailor to stop with his lies before it is too late. The whole film is about these infamous lies mouthed by the tailor and what consequences it has to the whole country.

The actors for their part are told to manipulate each other till there is no telling who is saying the truth. The film follows a linear format but the lies are totally chaotic. There is also time wasted in trying to verify these lies. It is almost as if it is a Tug of War between the main protagonists. Neither of them want to really let go of what they have without a fight. It is in this simple connection that the whole film rests and at times even soars. It is not long when the two of them loose wind of the fantasies they have created and begin to fall face down into a harsh reality. Their conversations begin to create a series of events that are almost beyond their control. They almost feel insignificant in front of the after effects of their dialogs. But this is something that John Le Carre is famous for, he doesn’t really need alot to work with to create some catastrophic. But it goes with the case with many of the political scandals that happen in the world in a daily basis. They all seem to stem out of a really small insignificant place.

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