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[FULL REACTION] Ronin (1998)
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You'll need to sync up your own copy of the episode in order to watch along with me. Open 2 windows, one with the reaction and one with the video, then arrange them how you see fit!
Watched on through norwegian streaming service. Sometimes it runs faster and to make it synced try to set the video to 0.95 speed. If it runs slower, set the video to 1.05 speed. Hope it helps! 💕
I use a watch along format in order to comply with copyright laws.
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Comments
Slayback
a classic banger in the "spy" genre. it "shows you" and then you understand why, as the movie progresses, it wants you to keep watching. it doesn't expect you to have the full picture right away just like the characters. it treats the viewer as a member of the "team". this is one of few movies that makes you feel like a mercenary/spy just by observing it unfold. a must have on blu-ray if you are a fan of the spy genre.
JAKH
The characters are not ronin because they do not know who they are working for at the current job. What makes them ronin is that they all were operatives (intelligence, security, or military) for various governments (US, UK, France, DDR, USSR/Russia, IRA) and were laid off, "RIF'ed" in the terminology of the 1990's (Reduction In Force), as a consequence of the end of the Cold War and the shrinking of various nation's spy agencies. When the movie was originally released the audience would have understood from their knowledge of then-current events that they were laid off due to budget cuts at the end of the Cold War. So each was serving his government ("samurai"), then lost their job because of budget cuts and continued in the same work as hired-per-job mercenaries rather than changing to employment by a different government agency (becoming "ronin").
