‘Bridge of Spies’ is a history lesson from the past and for the present

By Tom Siebert

Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller “Bridge of Spies” is one of the most educating and edifying films ever made. Spielberg is a virtuoso of verisimilitude, flawlessly recreating late 1950s Brooklyn and early 1960s East Berlin. Tom Hanks is even better than he was in his Oscar-winning performances, “Forrest Gump” and “Philadelphia.” This taut, true story is a cautionary tale for today’s existential war on terror, asking us to find the humanity in our enemy if we wish to survive as a world.
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