Do you know that movie cliché wherein after chasing the bad guys for half the movie, the team finally has him cornered only to have one of their own take their pointed gun and slowly turn it on our hero, dashing hopes that this stupid movie would be mercifully short? Even in the best-made movies that employ this story mechanism, it should have been obvious to anyone paying attention that the mole’s loyalties lay elsewhere, that perhaps he is even the story’s true antagonist.
This movie conceit is called the “big reveal.”
Over at “What’s Up With Francis-Church” I have a post up looking at the Pope’s recent talks and how the mask is off. There is no more pretending.
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