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Hmmm / "London Spy" (2015)
Dec. 14th, 2015 12:56 amThere are rumours about how the Kremlin guarantees the loyalty of its most important citizens. Under the pretext of celebrating an election to the State Duma the individual is treated to the finest meal Moscow has to offer. At some point during that night this prized individual blacks out waking in a hotel suite, on a bed, beside a terrified naked child. Before he can say anything, the FSB storm the room, arrest him, and take him to an interrogation cell in Moscow's Butyrka prison, where the individual swears he is not a paedophile. "My drink must have been spiked! I, I've been framed by my enemies!" He doesn't know. He can't explain. "But it is a mistake!" And, to his surprise, the FSB officer agrees that it is a mistake, but it is a mistake they will hold on record forever, a mistake no-one will ever see, unless the individual makes a mistake of a political kind. And, with that, the man's choice is clear privilege or disgrace. Destruction or survival. The FSB officer believes he's won. The individual believes he's lost. But those systems of oppression, as ruthless as they appear, as unbeatable as they seem, never hold, never last, never survive, for we will not live in fear.
