Atomic blonde spoilers
So I did watch atomic blonde and honestly it ended very differently from how I thought. I thought she'd uncovered a leak in MI6 in the top brass and she was gonna put everybody in that room full of bullets.
And I realised that spoiler alert Lorraine really was the worst person out of em even though there was that slip about the iron curtain.
Still not sure what the English were even trying to accomplish in Berlin like. Apparently? Going by Percival's actions, they were trying to keep the situation stable? No fall of the wall, but no prolonging of the cold war either. Or not? Percival didn't seem to much care for the fall. But I do understand why he got such a monologue. I was annoyed because I thought he was a traitor's man.but no, he was a loyal guy.
Baby!spy is really innocent with her big doe eyes and genuine sincere and open care for Lorraine.
I do feel like she genuinely cared for her lovers but tbh seriously? She betrayed one, and didn't protect the other one. And honestly Percival was right to call her out on her hypocrisy for lamenting his 'unnecessary' kill when she really did sell out James for no particular reason I can see.
The brutality of the violence was good and also somehow satisfying. Also great lighting. And complex plot. The pacing was Hella slow which was ok but started to grate juuuust a little bit.
I.e. Both angles I saw about this movie were wrong. The kill of baby!spy!lover is not altogether too gruesome comparitively, and it doesn't really FEEL like a bury your gays moment bc everybody dies in this damn movie and I didn't feel too much attachment. But it is also not some trigger for some righteous cleansing, some 'pushed too far' trigger. Coz Lorraine isn't righteous and the loss of spy!lover is just an ugly mostly unnecessary mess that really didn't have so much significance (why mislead me on this?). I am not convinced she wouldn't have killed Percival without him doing this last thing.
