Black Bag 4K 2025

Steven Soderbergh has two films coming out earlier this year: “The Presence” and “Black Bag”. What unites these pictures is the artist's approach: take the classic canon and try to find a new way of looking at the story. If in “The Presence” the director adds a camera on behalf of the ghost to the most standard horror plot, where there is a house with a ghost, then here, in the spy detective, - the theme of relationships and sexuality of an adult couple. Here they do not talk directly about sex and do not show it, but the attraction and excitement in the interaction of the main couple is an important part of the picture, the lives of the characters and as if recognized by them, which, you would agree, is important in a couple. By the way, even the title “Black Bag” is a stop word so that the partner doesn't cross the line when asked about work - also a bit defiant.

My subjective feeling is that couples who look to be in their 40s are most often portrayed in movies as those for whom sex is rare or even a problem. It's different here. The tension is maintained, he looks at her with loving eyes. Yes, and in general, the main characters are a model (which raises questions for other characters in the picture) of family life; because they are the ones who have everything worked out: a great house, life, relationships. The heroine Cate Blanchett on the compliment about home improvement with a smile says that it is only because they do not have children. But that's not the only reason.

The main characters are spies, and they have every opportunity to spy on each other. There is where to unfold anxiety, speculation + work harmful. The other characters in the movie cheat in their relationships, manipulate. The main couple demonstrates simple principles: respect for distance, complete trust and unconditional support. And it is this that literally turns them on, Cate Blanchett's heroine asks: “Would you kill for me?” And Fassbender's character really shows in the movie what he is willing to do for his wife. Because of these principles, their union is the strongest in the movie, and in general, an example of the very, elusive and notoriously healthy relationship where the foundation is respect, which keeps the partners in love and attracted to each other.

This is the story I see wrapped in the wrapper of a standard thriller-detective with classic hooks, traps for the viewer and a great soundtrack. A story of adult love and sexuality.