The Interpreter (2005)

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The greatest movie ever!

the audience applauded

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I can usually trust nik kid to choose decent roles and I never watch Sean penn movies as I think he doesn't have any emotions so he over acts. Boring snooze boring. I'm still waiting for something to happen. Nuffin

The movie starts with a bang and the tension mounts with the open mike incidence at the UN center. Then, a lull phase kicks in with lots of fluffy subplots including background check, lie detector test, family history which drag it on and on. Those are perhaps needed for character development but could have been made more interesting. The tempo picks up after Silvia is put under 24 hr surveillance and with the ensuing events. Good acting from S. Penn and N. Kidman although she physically looks too soft and delicate for what she went through in her childhood and young adult years. The plot is sort of predictable but with good acting and directing, the movie is still enjoyable if you ignore the utterly puerile finale.

****SPOILERS****Silvia Broome,Nicole Kidman,a white transplanted Matoboin is the official interrupter for the United Nations in NYC who one night, in her retrieving a box of junk she left behind, overhears a conversation between two shadowy figures in the darkened UN Gerneral Assembly room. The two speaking in the indigenous to the nation of Matobo Africn Ku dialect describe a secret plot to knock off Matobo dictator Edmond "Crazy Eddie" Zuwanie, Earl Cameron, while he addresses it three days hence. Zuwanie a Nelson Mendela-like for the people popular revolutionary had since turned into a Idi Amin like ruthless dictator after he took power. Thus proving that power corrupts even the most what seemed like a truly man of the people and incorruptible Eddie Zuwanie. As for Silvia she has a score to settle with Eddie in that he, or his men, were responsible for the deaths of her parents and sister. That's when their jeep hit a land mine planted by Eddie's troops that blew them to bits.It's when Silvia reported the assassination plot to the police she became a target of the assassins which in fact blew their cover! And that had the US secret Srevice headed by Tobkin Keller, Sean "Pencilneck" Penn,called into the case. There's also Eddie's main rival for power back in Matobo Kuman-Kuman, George Harris, who's suspected to be behind the plot to ice Eddie whom Keller and his crew are out to interrogate. It's in Brooklyn's Crown Heights district that Silvia jumps the gun to get to Kuman-Kuman first who's at the time riding the B133 bus to his job as a counter or sandwich man at a local bodega. Only with her exiting the bus, in getting nowhere in talking to him, before the fireworks went off! Thus having Kuman-Kuman as well as the bus passengers blown apart by a bomb left there by one of Eddie's henchmen. ****SPOILERS**** Things come to a surprising conclusion at the UN General Assembly as Eddie, who's expected to be arrested for crimes against humanity after his speech, makes hit pitch to escape justice in proving that he's not the murderous low-life creep that he's been depicted by the press as well as fellow Matoboins. It's there that the entire plot to knock him off falls apart by the quick actions of Agent Keller. Not in assassinating him but making him a martyr, a live one at that, in it looking like his assassination was foiled by faith or providence just in the nick of time! Thus making Eddie look like he's the victim of all this chicanery, that he in fact dreamed up, not the victimizer of his own people! This was the very first and as far as I know only film actually made in the United Nation with the director, who had a cameo role in it as Jay Pettigrew, Sydney Pollack getting permission from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to film there. The film also turned out to be the last film that Pollack directed.

This was a very intriguing movie, the dialogue between Silvia (Nicole Kidman) and Tobin (Sean Penn) was brilliant throughout. The story takes a very interesting angle at discussing the politics of genocide laden Africa, and a different look at race on the continent.It is a movie I would definitely recommend,I found it intelligent and unique. Nicole Kidman's use of her eyes brought a lot of emotion to the Silvia character, which spoke volumes at key points throughout the movie. There were a few points where I thought Sean Penn wasn't as emotional as someone in his shoes should have been, but that is the beauty of human nature, we all do cope differently.I gave it an 8.3/10 as I could connect with the story, the acting was above average, and the plot was different. A very well done film worth the view.