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That part of the narrative is seductive, I agree, and this combined with the contrast provided by Blunt's lead - being shown to be weak & totally impotent in the face of spook stratagems - tends me towards my conclusions.
On a tangent it seems that the end scene was concocted by Del Toro & Blunt after the original scripted one was deemed inappropriate by the actors, Blunt in particular. And I don't blame her.
Apparently it was intended that there would be a fight between them where Blunt's character was to have been almost stripped naked and defiled. Not literally defiled but shown to be beaten and exposed, physically and mentally.
Seeing that kind of thing would have left a bad taste in my mouth. At least in this ending there was some part in Del Toro's murder machine character tending towards a benign, empathetic regard of Blunt's.
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I think you're both right. The might=right narrative in the film is seductive, not least because it's somehow cathartic . And I think part of the film's effectiveness is that it conveys some of that feeling, hints at why this path so beguiles US policymakers. The FBI agent characters are a necessary foil to this so that the film retains some kind of moral anchor - you could tell the story without their being central characters. But because they're central they highlight the tension between the two worlds, culminating in the end scene where might wins. For the moment.