Reading/Watching/Listening/Loving

So this movie was quite boring for AT LEAST an hour. Don’t get me wrong, it was reasonably fun watching Benedict Cumberbatch dash around looking pretty for the first bit, and somebody gets shot, which is always interesting, but overall the first hour of the movie is mostly just a lot of old guys talking. True to the time period, the women in this film lack a certain, shall we say, presence in that most of the time they are secretaries or do not exist. But the way the film is framed is quite extraordinary, and an hour in you are decently attached to the characters and want to see it through to the end, to see how everyone ends up after who has betrayed whom. Basically what I’m saying is it felt educational in breadth, but satisfying in plot.