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As a commentary on Edward Snowden or WikiLeaks or some such, a list, that somehow exists, is out in the clear and being hunted by various spies.

It would have made a huge difference had this not been portrayed as a flashback/debriefing. Because of this complete failure in storytelling, there was no sense of risk at all; an important part of a spy movie like this.

• Based on The Coldest City – (2012 comic), by Antony Johnston

• 0:45 —

  • Ronald Reagan
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Berlin Wall
  • This is his speech at the Brandenburg Gate, on 1987-06-12
• 1:00 — Cold War
• 9:00 — Oh fuck off, is this an invulnerable movie, where everything gets told as memory by the main character who can’t die?
• 10:15 — Stasi
• 18:45 — Sinéad O’Connor
• 31:30 — Casual misandry.
• 32:00 — Wilhelm scream
• 32:45 — Why would she hide her face?
• 32:30 — I thought that there was a DMZ on either side of the wall.
• 34:15 — The Prince – (1910 book), by Niccolò Machiavelli is practically a pamphlet, and that’s a novel.

• 34:30 —

  • Larry Flynt
  • Hustler – (magazine)
• 35:30 — Someone, somewhere, recognizes that video playing on the left. Just not me offhand. I’m guessing it’s a music video, as that’s quite a theme.
• 40:00 — David Hasselhoff
• 43:00 — In the background is a billboard for Stalker – (1979 movie)

• 1:04:45 — That’s Tetris – (video game)

  • .. I won’t do the work to identify which version that is, but based on that monitor it could be a DOS version. Maybe it’s an Amiga.
• 1:14:30 — Casual misandry.
• 1:22:00 — Why would she stay? Oh right, she does an ice water thing, so she has that superpower.
• 1:23:30 — So she eluded the driver?
• 1:25:45 — A perspective shift like that, where she wouldn’t have known the event, really sticks out as inappropriate from the rest of the storytelling style.
• 1:33:00 — How can he be that okay when he just had a knife or some pointy thing in his back?
• 1:34:00 — This is breaking the fourth wall and fucking up the narrative style.
• 1:34:30 — Sampling (music)

• 1:34:45 —

  • Black hole
  • “To be, or not to be” is from Hamlet

• 1:44:30 — She could have acted as he was screwing the silencer on, the other two didn’t have guns out.

So why is this movie called Atomic Blonde? There is no atomic.