The secret agent movie Trailler

A great film from 1996

The first chapter coments

A visit to the embassy


At this first stage of the book Mr. verloc seems to be a very commom person, living a normal life with his wife and his brother-in-law and his mother-in-law. He owns a shop in London and travel many night in business.
Mr. Verloc is called to move to Soho , so they whole family goes. On a visit to the embassy Verloc and Wurmt (ambassador's assistant) dialog about the police in the country.
With a bit of disagreements Wurmt decide that Verloc must talk to Mr. Vladimir.


coment: Verloc is a angry fat guy till the first chapter, who is not satisfact with the police in his country. his family is very worried about hispoliticals activities. Mr verloc is going to face trouble.

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Quick Interview with Winnie's mother

The jornalist: So Winnie's mother, what do you think about Mr. Verloc's acts and plans for your daughter?

Winnie's mother: I always said that he was a mysterious guy. He never tell us what he do on his working travels or with who is he interacting with.
But he looks like very responsable and respectable. When im with him its strange, however i feel safe. After we moved to Soho he changed, and started to go out more often then ever, in the end i didnt know nothing that was happening.

The Jornalist: What About if you knew the end of the history? What would you do?

Winnie's mother: I'd probably poison his breakfast, what's not a dificult thing to do, because he is always hungry.

More about the book's history

Greenwich Bombing of 1894

Royal Observatory, greenwich c. 1902 as depicted on a postcard

Conrad's character, Stevie, is based on the French anarchist, Martial Bourdin, who died gruesomely in Greenwich Park when the explosives he carried prematurely detonated. Bourdin's motives remain a mystery as does his intended target, which may have been the Greenwich observatory. In the 1920 Author's Note to the novel, Conrad recalls a discussion with Ford Madox about the bombing

About First Chpater's Characters

Mr. Adolf Verloc is a secret agent who owns a shop in London. He is tasked by his superiors with destroying Greenwich by means of a bomb. He is part of an anarchist organization that creates pamphlets under the heading The Future of the Proletariat. He is married to Winnie , and lives with his wife, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie.







Mrs. Winnie is Verloc's wife. She cares for her brother Stevie, who has an unknown mental disability. She is younger than her husband and thinks of what may have happened if she had married her original love, rather than choosing to marry the successful Verloc. A loyal wife, she becomes incensed upon learning of the death of her brother due to her husband's plotting, and kills him with a knife in the heart. She dies, presumably by drowning herself to avoid the gallows.





Stevie is Winnie's brother. Stevie is very sensitive and is disturbed by notions of violence or hardship. His sister cares for him, and Stevie passes most of his time drawing numerous circles on pieces of paper. He is implicated in Verloc's attempt to bomb greenwich although the degree of his complicity is not known.




Mr. Wurmt is the Ambassador's assistant. Which means thats he helps a important person who speaks for the country abroad.

PLOT SUMMARY

Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country.
He pretends to live a normal life, with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told to plant a bomb- but the plan goes terribly wrong...

Does Verloc really love Winnie, or is she just part of his cover?
Can Winnie ever forgive him?
Who is Verloc really working for?