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The Interpreter

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October 9, 2005

Ok, the movie was called The Interpreter, not I Am Sam, but both started with an “I”, I just forgot the The part.

The Interpreter (Widescreen Edition)Nicole Kidman played a pasty white interpreter for the UN and Sean Penn was the tough but broken-hearted Secret Service guy whose wife died 23 days before, after she’d left him but was coming back to him and then had a car crash.

It was a very long, drawn out movie although Nicole Kidman probably looked better in it than I’ve seen her look in a while, other than the fact that I guess she’s been botoxed so much that her forehead can’t wrinkle, thus leaving her with fewer body parts to help her emote.

The movie’s about how she overhears some plot to kill the despot running one of those third-world countries, and figuring out who is now trying to kill her too because she overheard.

The secret service guy, of course, doesn’t believe anything she says and dredges up her past political activism history, which is easily explained away by youth.

Former? activist, Nicole, supposedly has put all that political stuff (including vengeance for her family’s death) aside, but jumps right back into it when she finds out that her brother has now been killed, and perhaps had it in mind to kill that country’s leader from the beginning of the movie, you just don’t know.

Of course the ending has Nicole getting deported back to her own country after she has taken the leader hostage and has a gun pointed to his head, but doesn’t kill him thanks to Sean, and his logical, yet emotive plea not to kill the leader.

I’m surprised they didn’t go whole hog here and have Nicole and Sean necking it up at the end since they’d ended up ‘bonding’ so much, but thankfully, they just left it with an open invitation from Nicole for Sean to come visit her in her native Africa.

The Interpreter with Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman
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