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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.
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.
The title of George R. R. Martin's sci-fi novel Dying of the Light, published in 1977, is based on one of the two refrains present in "Do not go gentle into that good night". The book deals with topics of the resistance and acceptance of death, on a planetary scale.
Dec 5, 2014 · 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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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.
Dec 5, 2014 · This story of a career CIA operative ( Nicolas Cage) doggedly pursuing a terrorist who once imprisoned and tortured him is not a good movie.
The poem is divided into five stanzas, each of which focuses on a different group of people who should not "go gentle into that good night." The first stanza addresses old men, who should burn and rave against the dying of the light.
Nicolas Cage stars as an ailing former C.I.A. agent who goes rogue when his terrorist nemesis reappears in this electrifying thriller.
Rescued in the nick of time, the seasoned CIA field agent, Evan Lake, escapes certain death by the hand of his sadistic torturer and Islamic terrorist, Muhammad Banir.
