![]() ![]() Atomic Blonde Summed Up – TL DRĬharlize is an American playing a British spy. Sure, I have left large swaths of this movie on the cutting room floor, but that is the general gist of it. Which, turned out to be, find A Satchel and patsy the heck out of them, objective. Keeps Lorraine’s cut out through MI6 in tact (which provides impunity for the Americans with the Russians) and also helps Lorraine complete her second objective which was to “find Satchel”. With the help of the wire that was on Percival, Delphine cut together an audio clip to make it sound like Percival was Satchel. Which is why Lorraine needed to kill Percival and tie up that loose end. Delphine, the French spy, finds out about Percival’s plan and warns Lorraine. And so he decides that not only will he sell the list to the Russians, but that he’ll also turn Lorraine in as Satchel. And when Percival was looking at the list he discovers that Satchel and Lorraine are one in the same. Another key point that tips us to this fact is Merkel, Lorraine’s contact in East Berlin, who is actually a CIA contact.īut who was that Percival guy!? Percival was a double agent for the Russians that should have never received the list at the beginning from Spyglass. The biggest being the conversation between Emmet and Lorraine, and his comment that she should get back to Langley. There were a few key details that show us that this is the case. Thus the tense debriefing at the beginning of the film. She is an American agent, acting as an MI6 agent, attempting to get our McGuffin List of Agents, for MI6. Rewind, Lorraine Broughton isn’t an MI6 agent. So that is where things go a little dicey for Lorraine for her. And alternately Lorraine sends the good intel back to MI6, or does she? Before we answer this, we first need to dive in and answer the second mission that the MI6 has tapped her to accomplish, “who is Satchel?” Well, Satchel is Lorraine. After all, she was told to trust no one.Įventually Lorraine insinuates herself to the Russians and sends them a bad list, a fake McGuffin. Lorraine immediately (well, immediately after a few fake contacts bite the dust) connects with the Germany Station Chief, David Percival and immediately begins to doubt him. ![]() Lorraine’s second mission is to discover who Satchel is and turn them over to the MI6. Our favorite Atomic Blonde has to go and get it. Basically the most stereotypical spy movie McGuffin of all time. ![]() ![]() (Think the CIA here in America.) Oh no! A list of western spy details has gone missing and the MI6 has sent Lorraine into Germany to find the missing list. (Usual Suspects anyone?)Īgent Lorraine Broughton is mentioned as the shining star of the MI6 secret intelligence service, which is the foreign intelligence agency of the British government. One of the things that might be most confusing is that the movie is 100% entirely told in flashbacks in a debriefing room a week after the incidents occurred which adds on another layer of optics and perceptions to the tale being recounted. Alright? So maybe we should start at the beginning and work our way towards the back. But don’t worry, all the details were there to pull it all together, you may have just missed one or two details that you needed to make the leap to the ending. So the ending probably quite possibly threw a few of you. Not only a pile of double agents, but a whole coterie of triples, who’s motivations become more and more difficult to track as the movie progresses. But a little googling will find them all for you.īut despite the appearance of a very thin veneer here, we actually have quite a complicated story to keep track of. My only glitch is that the remixed versions presented in the film aren’t all there on the soundtrack. Or wherever you get your music from these days. (I highly recommend checking out the Atomic Blonde soundtrack out on Spotify. It’s an inspired level of music quality just in the trailer alone. Then back to Depeche Mode again intercutting back and forth. I mean, in under three minutes we jump from How Does It Feel by New Order to Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode and then over to a modern retro jump with Kanye’s Black Skinhead. No? Or maybe it’s the music that has me all delirious like. (See what I did t here? Come on.) Super Clever Twists Wrapped in a Beautiful Facade Maybe Atomic Blonde is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy crossed with John Wick sped up to double speed and injected with a little extra attitude as well? And it might be the Tinker Tailor that will have people wondering what hit them, in the face, with a set of keys. Atomic Blonde isn’t Memento or Time Lapse, but it does has a sort of mysterious, who’s playing for which team thing going for it. ![]()
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