Laissez-fair kind of control

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2010)

Most notable is Vassily Orlov's leadership style I didn't like the first part when it shows how he treated the kids. But once he let them go to the US, they were out of his control. To have that level of independency and still remain part of both systems in such a natural way, is mind boggling. It's almost like Evelyn Salt suffers from split-loyalty which, like split-personality, happens at the subconscious level. She just looks too natural living out each of the two conflicting identities. Obviously her becoming in and of itself was Vassily's biggest achievement.
So if you take out the extreme violence, the movie provides a vivid lesson on blessing and cursing: how prophesies become self-fulling.
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