Bridge of Spies...humans can be cold as war

If your background is Irish, and the next guy's German, and your neighbor is Russian, what makes you American? Living under the same rules of the book. The Constitution is what brings all these heritage and different cultures together. Living as one. Now they all share one same ideology, building a new country based in a smash up of different heritages but under the ideal of freedom and liberty. If so, anyone has the right to be treated as equal and have a proper trial and the right to be considered as innocent as any citizen of their own country. Building bridges between countries that might not share the same politics or economy but hungry for power will become a secret war in trade for information that will bring and increase that power.
"BRIDGE OF SPIES" (2015), is that reflection. Described as a thriller, looks better as a drama. One that gets deep in the mind set of different countries fighting to figure their own status among the rest just to realize how ignorant sometimes we are when comes to foreign cultures.


The story follows the fight of a Brooklyn lawyer, Mr. Donovan. His firm pushed him to take the case of an alleged Russian spy that deserves a proper trial in order to follow the nation desire of get him on the electric chair. Because what matter is what everybody thinks, and that means he is a spy recovering information to drop the next nuclear bomb to the country.We might never know if he is a spy or not and what are his real intentions in the country but as a human being is as honorable and decent that won his american lawyer heart's. Then things take a turn when american best interest of spying their Russian fellows ended in disaster, getting their new prototype plane hitter and crashed and the young pilot caught as prisoner of war. Then Mr. Donovan, played by the popular actor Tom Hanks bringing one of his charming performances but nothing new to his standards, gets involved in the negotiations to exchange spies, trying to save the one of his own and bring his case to a happy ending. When negotiations start, we can only realize how politics follow a different book.

The one that cares about what everybody wants and thinks. Some are more concern about wining a war. One that doesn't exist but also is happening under the table exchanging information that will bring power to whom posses it. Some others care about their citizens, bringing peace to them in their homes and minds. Others just follow orders and care about wat they are told in order to do their best and be doing an excellent job. And just a few care about what is right. What all the people involved are suffering. Of how many are paying the consequences from decisions of others. It's only when you get out of your comfort zone and get in the shoes of others that you realize what you really have and the benefits you are enjoying and the sacrifice others are living. We might not agree with all what we have and things happening around us but it's not until you are able to experience the lack of those in others that you might value them.


Nothing is more important than safety, liberty, freedom, and when these are in jeopardy, perspectives will change and things take a turn from living to survival. Under perspective of director Steven Spielberg, this story proves it all. His own obsession with war and its consequences brings to the the table a new face of the period called Cold War, moving away from what a traditional war is, to become an espionage tale that moves around the psyche of it's participants. Showing images of those consequences after war and comparing two sides of the world living the dream of winning and losing.

At the end, what really matters is whatever you think, not to be thank for or be recognize for, but knowing that anyone has done what it was right and supposed to is what will bring you peace. Not following just orders or becoming a sheep following others but standing by yourself even when others point at you and might not understand what's behind your actions, at the end this will fall together and will prove if was right or wrong but in times of war and desperate measures needed, follow your heart will prevent you to become as cold as any war or winter storm, because by the end of any conflict, and when we were able to look back at the events, are those who pursue the idea of saving and helping others the ones that will stand timeless and will bring the best for any nation regardless cultures, heritage, traditions or ideologies but as secret heroes nor soldiers or spies. What make you an American? What makes you a citizen of your country and what are doing to make it a better one? Are you building bridges between countries, cities, families, careers, communities or you still standing by your own?