“The movie was fake, the mission was real” In Argo Ben Affleck plays one of six american officials who flee the U.S embassy to find refuge in Canada. The movie is set in 1979-1980 during the Iran hostage crisis. In order for them to survive without being spotted by Iranian rebels they decide to pass as Canadian movie directors scouting for places to shoot their new sci-fi movie “Argo”. Filled with drama and suspense “Argo” is definitely a must watch. Click below for more info
Argo makes this far-fetched story feel every bit as real, and intense, as it was. The movie opens on Nov. 4, 1979 — a day that shook the world — with images of furious Iranian citizens pushing up against the gates of the U.S. embassy in Tehran. It’s fascinating to be reminded that the taking of the American hostages wasn’t a planned event so much as an improvised, up-from-the-streets eruption against the yoke of U.S. imperialism. We see the protesters churning to a slow boil outside (a prologue sketches in the vital history of why they were so angry), and then what’s going on behind the walls of the embassy: a great deal of feverish document-shredding, but also a scary awareness on the Americans’ part that the cavalry isn’t going to save them this time. They’re on their own.
