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I love a good visual story just like all of us do and honestly I never lost interest throughout, Bridge of Spies.  Thanks to master filmaker Steven Spielberg, we get to go back nearly 60 years in history and reinterpret and reimagine what may have happened, for real. Entirely believable in his humble negotiating and living out of authentic American principles set forth in our Constitution, the right for a human being, to have due process of law. In determining a criminal offense. The burden of proof, for any conviction, lies in the hands, of the prosecution and the authorities must act, with due process. However, argues mostly everyone, in espionage, the rule book goes out the window. But, not for James Donovan, played by Tom Hanks, an Irish American, who knows how to talk his point and stand on it, while taking a beating, from both personal and public arenas. 
And just when you think he's been beat, American pilot Gary Powers gets shot down and miraculously survives, landing into dreaded enemy territory. Just what the US didn't want. Ushering in the need for negotiations.
Speilberg, through Donavan's character, played by Tom Hanks, reminds us that the descent into uncivilized national behavior is rather easy, with fear and not taking personal responsibility for your actions, playing the largest part. "We must do what our governments can't do" is how Donavan operated, in the story.  And he took risks in doing this negotiating, through Wolfgang Vogal, played by Sebastian Koch, and Otts young secretary Max Mauff, as well as, Russias' nonreprestentative. So that until everyone lands on the Bridge of Spies, no one knows whether or not human decency will win. In the end, even Rudolf Abel, played by Mark Rylance, will live, after being exchanged. And Fredrick Pryor, played by Austin Stowell, will continue to teach economics and later consult with world banks, another dicey business, like studying communist economics in West Berlin, during the Cold War. The makings of experiential wisdom.
For me it's always a story, with a theme of human justice, that gets a gold star!!!