didn't watch the trailer or anything promotional, so i went in blind.

i haven't been amongst a theater audience that old and that white since saving private ryan. lol

cold war history buffs will love this film.

a very sardonic look/narrative on "duck and cover" paranoia too.

spoilers

- fence-jumping motif: the brooklyn kids hopping the fence freely at the end was quite cathartic for donovan, after having witnessed what he did from the berlin train passing by *the wall*.

- after the exchange, powers telling the CIA that he didn't confess anything to the russians during his interrogation/captivity is kind of a conundrum. not saying spielberg was being historically inaccurate, but in reality powers did actually admit to the U-2 spy plane's mission and purpose the russians.