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Dying of the Light is a 2014 American spy film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Nicolas Cage as an ex- CIA agent suffering from dementia who is on a personal mission to track down and kill a terrorist who had tortured him two decades earlier.
Dec 5, 2014 · Dying of the Light: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob. When a devastating illness threatens to end Evan Lake's career in the C.I.A., he goes rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight. Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Forced into retirement and terminally ill, a CIA agent gets word that his longtime nemesis has resurfaced, so he sets out on a personal mission to kill him.
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Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright. Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
A phrase from the poem, "dying of the light", has been used in the titles of George R. R. Martin's sci-fi novel Dying of the Light (1977) and a 2014 installment in Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant series.
This story of a career CIA operative ( Nicolas Cage) doggedly pursuing a terrorist who once imprisoned and tortured him is not a good movie.
