I SPY With My Little Eye…

“One reason many of us resist our current situation is that it fails to match our own expectations.”

– Martha Beck, O Magazine, July 2015

I SPY With My Little Eye…

A movie that knows what it is — a spy-spoof comedy — and yet offers viewers much more than that, should one be so inclined to delve beneath the surface a little.

I re-watched the film, “SPY,” starring Melissa McCarthy, recently. It is hilarious! I found myself laughing out loud throughout the movie.

Melissa McCarthy in the movie, “SPY,” is my kind of femme fatale.

McCarthy’s character, Susan Cooper, is a deskbound CIA agent. Susan is the behind-the-scenes voice in the ear for the real agents who get to be out in the field, doing all the cool spy work.

But when one of her agents (played by super sexy Jude Law) supposedly dies, she finds herself volunteering for a mission that involves working, at long last, as an undercover agent in the field — after a decade spent hiding out in the basement of the CIA headquarters, in front of a computer screen.

Susan is sweet, timid and a bit of a pushover. But we soon realize she wasn’t always that way. It’s just that 10 years in a support role has worn away her self confidence and now she’s absolutely terrified to try her hand at field work.