Roger Ferris is the man the CIA in the Middle East. He speaks Arabic, knows how to move, adapt, quickly weaving relationships, obtain information. Ed Hoffman is his supervisor in Washington. While uses his hands to get in the car the children or help them to pee with a wireless phone makes war, sacrifice human lives, unless it can that of his compatriot, from his point of view every day save the world. U.S. persons and does not trust anyone. He taught her to do the same but Ferris appears to have some qualms of conscience. Especially since he is allied with Hani Salaam, head of Jordanian intelligence, to bring into the open Al-Saleem, the mastermind of the attacks that are hitting Europe.
Lies is a film about different perspectives. Hoffman, Ferris and Jordanian Hani on moral positions are different, have different concerns in Hani-import a regional control on his fief, in Hoffman presses a global control-; different bodies: that of Ferris and bruises, upset (after the bite of a dog), pierced by the bone fragments of a friend who exploded beside that of Hoffman is heavy, bolso, folded in on itself. The two protagonists are mainly looks different: that of Hoffman is a view from above, mediated by the cameras, which allegedly omniscient and objective, that of Ferris is a look from within and without filters than those of an ordinary sunglasses at the same level of the enemy or the alliance, is no different. On all that stands by Ridley Scott, with an average of four or six cameras per set, aerial shots and posted workers everywhere a bit 'Hoffman and a little' Ferris, after all.
From the novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, screenwriter William Monahan drew a spy story that sees Leonardo DiCaprio, after The Departed, again in the role of a character who plays a part and puts her life as a play , at his side, alongside or against him humming Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott's the chameleon. Closes the triangle excellent Mark Strong. Three men with the same goal, a common "Body of Lies", three different visions and no truth.
With the installation of Scalia, author of Black Hawk Down, the film moves between a hundred locations without getting lost and it bounces at a good pace through the maze of lies, where "your enemies dress like your friends and your friends like your enemies. " The show is insured, renewed. The film does not say, however, almost nothing new on the eastern front, so that the setting takes a back seat, although the engine remains the dullness on the pitch. Certain naivety of the character DiCaprio (actor ever), certain ideological insistence on the clothes of a clash of interests, first of all, some narrative passages almost forced undermine the script, unfortunately, as if all the explosives used on the set some charge had remained in the hands of the author without knowing it, producing some damage. Collateral.
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