If anybody thinks historical films are all about boring and wasting time, this movie would change their mind. Bridge of Spy was based on a true story of U-2 incident in 1960. A Soviet spy, Rudoft Abel, was arrested, and James Donovan, an insurrance lawyer at that time, was chosen to be his defender. Francis Gary Power, a pilot of US army, was arrested by the Soviet Union after failing his misson. In the meantime, the young Frederic Pryor, an American college student, was captured in East Berlin. Mister James Donovan took his job extremely serious and did his best to save Abel from being executed by convincing the judge and trial jury that Abel could be useful for the exchange with the Soviet Union in the future. …show more content…
The contents in this movie were being chosen and some were cut out due to the limited time displaying. It surely would bring confusion because not every single person on this world knows about the U-2 incident, the spies, and the exchange. The timeline movement might be fast. Throughout the movie, they did not mention how CIA was be able to track and find Abel. You would not even sure he was a Soviet spy until later on. However, all movies have limited time. In 142 minutes, of course, the movie could not tell us everything in detail. But we can see that each one of the events had been chosen carefully as Steven Spielberg wanted us to focus on Donovan’s negotiation. Argo by Ben Affleck is the similar movie of this historical, thrilling, and drama film. The two were base on real events in which the main characters tried to help the American that were captured in another countries. However, Bridge of Spies is not only showing us the historical facts but also the another side of war. There was some form of friendship that was built between Abel and Donovan which was unacceptable at that time. And with the great names such as Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance, they portraited a nice picture inside of the hateness of Cold