A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.
The film receives a Left-Leaning rating due to its dominant themes critiquing Western foreign policy, intelligence agency manipulation, and the post-colonial vulnerability of smaller nations, which aligns with anti-imperialist and anti-establishment perspectives.
The movie features a predominantly white main cast without explicit DEI-driven recasting of traditional roles. While it subtly critiques Western foreign policy and colonial dynamics through its narrative, this critique is more political and satirical, not explicitly framing traditional identities negatively as a central DEI theme.
The film includes Mickie Abraxas, a gay former revolutionary, as a secondary character. His sexuality is presented factually but is not central to the plot or his character's primary struggles, which are rooted in political persecution. The portrayal is neither strongly affirming nor denigrating, treating his identity as an incidental detail within the espionage narrative.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an adaptation of John le Carré's novel. All significant characters in the movie retain the same gender as established in the original source material.
Based on a review of the source novel and film casting, no major character who was canonically or widely established as one race in the source material is portrayed as a different race in the film adaptation.
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