OUR KIND OF TRAITOR ... do the right thing

What would you do in order to save yourself? And i'm not talking about a life or death moment when someone has a gun pointing towards you or your family is threatened at home by some gang killers, but the moment when you realize that after a series of bad decisions and low points in your life you are feeling hopeless and you life and daily basis in moving without purpose, obviously affecting everybody and everything around you, drowning it into a black hole that is sucking their souls and turning there lives into a miserable momentum. How can you take back what you've done in find some peace in your mind that let you move on and keep going? And what would you be willing to do in order to save the ones you love the most? To take them out of the picture and give them a clean slate for them to start their own countdown and not having to deal with a baggage inherit by you. How many times do we need to fall to learn how to get up? How many times do we need to make a mistake to realize that we are wrong and that whatever we are doing is causing some damage to us and others?

This is the story of two men, trapped in their own lives after  series of bad decisions that are about to collide and will get them together, maybe from some redemption but at least they will try to straight things up and do better for their beloved ones. First we have a young english man, Perry, working hard to get his wife and marriage back to were they were before he cheated on her and put his career on jeopardy, but things won't be easy as some trust is broken and marriage is suffering from some distance between them, but when he notices how successful she seems in front of everybody's eyes, he can't stop but feeling like a loser and wondering why he hasn't done anything great or more meaningful, and he'll be about to when he cross paths with a middle age Russian man, that after seeing how Perry's wife left him for work in the middle of dinner, he invites him to join him and his friends to party. What can be wrong about joining a foreign stranger with a bunch of bodyguards to a very private club in the middle of nowhere while you on vacation on an unknown town in Africa?

And he is about to figure out, when this man, trates him as his guest in a very peculiar club where seems like the mafia like to hang, but actually he as a good time and the two guys start bonding and sharing more time, introducing their own families to each other until by the end of the night, Dima, the Russian man, asks Perry a favor: he is a member of the russian mafia and is looking for a way out so need help from the British government to protect his family, because he is 100% sure they are in danger and they are coming for them, so he is willing to negotiate and trade some valuable information for the government in order to locate and stop the russians. But why would anyone help a random stranger that happens to be in the mafia and get involved in what seems to be foreign affairs just to save a couple of kids from being murdered? Maybe because sometimes is the right thing to do.

Or how many times we've been tested to help others just as favor or cross paths with strangers that might sound crazy at the moment but deep down we all need some kind of help and we are mostly afraid to ask for it, so we tried to solve things on our own but there's nothing wrong to ask for help and definitely would be a better world if we were still acting like in old times, willing to help others in need. As Perry, that is about to get involved in a crossfire to save a family from being murdered, and when his wife asks him why is he doing this, he just comes to the realization that was the right thing to do when actually was also something he needed. This selfless act is bringing the peace he was looking for and funny fact is actually helping him to save his marriage while putting this couple to work together for something bigger than them, and working as a team will bring back the passion that they needed to reconnect. And might sound crazy and hard to believe, why would someone got involved with a random stranger in order to save him? Maybe because that particular person saw something on us that even us were denying. Dina saw in Perry an honorable man, an honest guy when everybody else only sees a guy that made a lot of mistakes and is trapped in a miserable life working as an english teacher while others are changing the world.

But Dima is no saint. He has his own past. Choosing the mafia in order to survive in his country when even his mother was fucking men to get some food for her child. After killing and serving, Dima realized that his family comes first and now they are in danger because of him. He put them in that position and now needs help to save them. Is it too late to change the curse of actions and do better? How can you undo a tough road that gave you what you needed but now is checking all that against you? Well, usually life closes a door to open a new one or even a window, but this time we are taking about a thriller, an excellent option for this summer, a well done and written thriller about two men and their families, and their own struggles to make things right involving doing the best for their own countries, moving away from the usual cliches of this genre, but taking us to some dark places and fussy images from the visionary look of it's director and the great mind of it's creator, John Le Carre, that has other bunch of thriller, already adapted as motion pictures and some others acclaimed printed novels, and in hands of an extraordinary cast lead by Ewan McGregor, Naomi Harris, Damian Lewis and Stellan Skarsgard, you'll definitely will be sitting at the edge of your seat while wondering if you'd be able to do the right and become "Our Kind of traitor" (2016).