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I liked this movie (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) a lot; I think it’s extremely well done, and Gary Oldman in particular is great. But at one point a character passes some graffiti that reads “The Future Is Female” and I realized that the only woman with any significant screen time in this film gets shot in the head. I’m not holding this against Tinker Tailor, because I would bet anything that it’s an extremely accurate depiction of the male-dominated world of international espionage in the 1970s; I’m just saying that there would never, ever be a movie like this with women as the main characters. A dramatic story about women over 40 working, and spying, and keeping all their clothes on. I’m just saying that’s kind of a problem, for me and the rest of my gender and a fictional graffiti artist.