The Interpreter (Sydney Pollack)
I do not know, maybe, it is me who is so stupid, or, maybe, it's due to adverse weather conditions or an evil curse, but I've watched "The Interpreter" at least three times and didn't understand all the twists and turns of the plot. It starts quite calm and gradually (at a little stretch when Silvia Broom performed by Nicole Kidman turns out to hear a conspiracy conversation in Ku that no more than a dozen people understand in NY) but the closer to the end, the less comprehensive the action at the screen becomes. The story is interesting but it seems to me that the screenplay writer has taken too many efforts to complicate it.
The two key phrases:
1. Layers of languages signifying nothing (Kuman-Kuman about the UN).
2. - With respect, you only interpret.
- Countries have gone to war because they misinterpreted one another (a dialog between Silvia Broom and a guy from Dr Zuwanie's security).
Could you guess who the main villains are? Of course, these two bastards who dared to doubt the importance of the UN in general and of interpreters' job in particular.
I wouldn't call the film a masterpiece, inspite the fact that the trio of Sydney Pollack, Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn could have made it, but in whole quite good.
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