” although I would like to point out that this is not merely a feature of WW2. The German presence in Finland’s own revolution and civil war, for example, wascarefully edged outof the national narrative as early as the victory parade in 1918 for the newly independent Finns. An exhibitio...
her adviser Judge Dee suggested that she steer clear of Asia’s arid heart, thereby leaving it to her enemies to waste their energies crossing its forbidding deserts before they reached her borders. But Wu, and subsequent
“I’m drawn towards double agents,” comments Kim, pointing to people with divided loyalties who “act in secret while surrounded by enemies, standing at the borders of their turbulent age.” His film is all the more remarkable for being inspired by history, most notably the rise of the ...