Black Bag
monition : MAJOR freebooter for Black BagSteven Soderbergh ’s thrillerBlack Bagstars Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as a marital couple working for a spy bureau , who become drag in multiple plots to leak cyberware to an foe State Department . Fassbender ’s George Woodhouse and Blanchett ’s Kathryn St. Jean must get to the bottom of who is behind the news leak of Severus , a piece of write in code make by Britain ’s National Cyber Security Center ( NCSC ) that ’s capable of spark a atomic nuclear reactor nuclear meltdown , to a Russian protester . George and Kathryn knead both separately and together on happen the perpetrator , among a mathematical group of colleague at the NCSC .
George ’s task is particularly tough , as he ’s given a list of defendant for the news leak that includes Kathryn herself . The list features four othercharacters like an expert play byBlack Bag ’s castof spy - thriller specialists . Rogue AgentandCOBRA ’s Marisa Abela plays Clarissa Dubose , a hot - head trailing artificial satellite manipulator , whileThe Gray Man ’s Regé - Jean Page is surveillance factor Colonel James Stokes , andJames Bondactor Naomi Harris is Stokes ’ girlfriend and the NCSC ’s in - firm shrink , Dr. Zoe Vaughan . Meanwhile , Tom Burke portrays Freddie Smalls , another NCSC agent who ’s in a relationship with Clarissa but log Z’s with Zoe behind her back .
George Was Tricked Into Investigating Kathryn As The Possible Leak
He Found Plenty Of Evidence Pointing To His Wife As The Culprit
Black Bagis Steven Soderbergh ’s most best - reviewed flick in decade on Rotten Tomatoesfor a reason . For most of its 94 minute , it habituate Hitchcockian misdirection tactic to misguide its audience into thinking that it ’s a story about a man tasked with convicting and assassinating his married woman . George is led to believe that it was Kathryn who leaked Severus , after he finds a theater tag in their bedroom ice can , for a movie she claims never to have seen .
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The ticket is tick with the coordinates for a meeting place , which turns out to be whereKathryn has a rendezvous with the correct - hand man of a Russian protester , to whom Severus has been leaked . What ’s more , Stokes reports to George that a bank score involving £ 7 million of laundered money linked to the Severus leak is registered under a false name , which Kathryn once used as an alias , a further slice of evidence indicate that she ’s behind the outflow . In fact , George is being misled into accuse his wife , and so are we .
Kathryn Was Framed As The Leak & Investigated The Truth About Severus
Black Bag’s Prime Suspect Was Just Doing Her Job
It ’s later break thatKathryn was simply doing her jobas an NCSC by meeting one of the Russian recipients of the Severus news leak , to investigate the plot while attempting to buy back the classified coding . Multiple conversations inBlack Bagexplain that what Severuscould do in the unseasonable hands could stimulate a regimen change fall a war between the Western powers and Russia , as well as a nuclear catastrophe . Moreover , whoever leaked Severus from the NCSC was committing treason against the British nation .
With Clarissa ’s help , Kathryn manages to track down the location of the Russian protester traveling to Moscowwith a transcript of the computer code before it ’s too late . She informs the US authority , bespeak that they launch a drone attack on the dissident ’ fomite , ensuring that the Severus leak is destroyed before it can do any damage . Meanwhile , George figure out out that the theatre ticket with coordinates on it was planted in his bedroom to frame Kathryn , and the name under which the money laundering shoot position was n’t just her assumed name , but the false name of many agents at the NCSC .
Arthur & Stokes Were Behind The Severus Leak
The NCSC Head Wanted Regime Change In Moscow, And Used Stokes To Carry Out His Plan
The Severus news leak was actually bear out by James Stokes , who ’d been feeding George assumed selective information about Kathryn . It was Stokes who embed the theater ticket , and murdered George ’s superior at the NCSC , to incubate his own path and pin his faithless act on Kathryn . Stokes was n’t working alone , though . He was ordinate to post out the leakage by Arthur Stieglitz , the NCSC head encounter by Pierce Brosnan , who wanted to use Severus to instigate government change in Moscow .
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Kathryn venture that Arthur wasbehind the Severus escape midway throughBlack Bag , and was able-bodied to reassert his involvement when she tell him that she ’d just had the Russian dissidents killed with a US drone strike . Arthur ’s horrified reaction gave off his role in the Severus leak secret plan , and George ’s lie detector tests on Stokes , Zoe , Freddie , and Clarissa did the relaxation .
Clarissa Was Not Directly Involved In The Severus Leak Plots
She Has Other Reasons To Frame Kathryn And Beat A Polygraph Machine
In another sublimely cliff-hanging act of distraction , Black Bagleads us to suppose that Clarissa Dubose may be involved in the Severus Leak plotssomehow . She appear to entail Kathryn in the plot deliberately , by failing to shroud George ’s track in time while he ’s using her planet navigation controls to descry on his wife ’s coming together with the Russian protester . In addition , George discovers that Clarissa is advisedly jamming his lie detector exam using technique designed to avoid polygraph indication .
Clarissa Dubose want to implicate Kathryn in faithless enactment because she ’s attracted to George , and is jealous of the seemingly unadulterated marriage he has with Kathryn .
Yet , Clarissa has her own motif for these action , entirely unrelated to the Severus leak plots . She wants to entail Kathryn in unfaithful act because she ’s attracted to George , and is jealous of the seemingly perfect marriage he has with Kathryn . She beats his Trygve Halvden Lie demodulator tryout simply for the fun of it , asshe ’s trained herself to become a prodigious prevaricator as part of her job , and so that she ’s able to cheat on her boyfriend without him ever finding out .
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Zoe Learned About Severus From Dating Stokes, & Then She Told Freddie
Her Personal Relationships With Patients At The NCSC Led To Word About The Leak Spreading
Clarissa is n’t even cognizant of the Severus leak , as it turns out . She ’s actually state the truth when she claims not to know what Severus is , during her polygraph test . She ’s the only one of the suspects who does n’t know about the leak and the game behind it , however . Zoe knows about Severus because Stokes told her the truth about the plot one drunken even , as he reveals at the end of their last mandatory psychiatrical session . Because Zoe is having a secret affair with Freddie , she tell him Stokes ’ mystery during one of their meetups .
Black Bagisn’t so much interested in distracting exposition if it consider aside from what ’s happening . The suspense build and build until it combusts , and the resolution brings us to an immensely satisfying full - circle moment that complements the beginning.- Mae Abdulbaki -ScreenRant ’s review ofBlack Bag
Ironically , the two defendant on George ’s list who seem the most likely to have carry out the Severus leak throughout the picture show are the only two who had nothing to do with it . Kathryn and Clarissa are entirely innocent . Stokes is the leaker , Zoe knows about it but does n’t alarm the NCSC as she does n’t need to be seen violate patient confidentiality , and Freddie also keeps the truth to himself as he want to see George and Kathryn go down as retaliation for being go past over for promotion .
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Black Bag ’s command of its tangled plot of land means that what turns out to be quite a straightforward patch keeps us guess until the end of the movie , suspend on the edge of our seats . George and Kathryn are the arrant NCSC couple , after all , it reverse out , because by keeping the full truth from each other , they never lie .
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Cast
Black Bag is a Steven Soderbergh target thriller from Focus Features . Cate Blanchett , Michael Fassbender , Regé Jean Page and Marisa Abela head the cast , along with Naomie Harris , Pierce Brosnan , and Tom Burke . The story , which is currently under wrap , was written by David Koepp .
Universal Pictures, Focus Features
Universal Pictures, Focus Features
