There is a 'Judas' in Walker's 'Altantuyaa'

When Andrew Kevin Walker wrote Se7en, he delivered more shocks than any thriller could. Without Judas, the proverbial snitch, the script writer authored the brutal specialist in Spacey to kneel, surrender himself willingly, and tease investigators in Freeman and Pitt to tears. With Pitt agonizing over the contents of the box and Freeman shouting himself hoarse not to look inside while muttering, "John Doe has the upper-hand" - it was apparent the hyper-motivated Spacey had absolute control over his own demise in orchestrating Pitt to willfully discharge his 'Wrath' - the last of the Seven Deadly Sins. Never has a script been so convoluted and complicated yet so disgustingly rendered, given that Pitt's beautiful wife in Paltrow was butchered because of the brute's 'Envy'.

The point is, how would a Walker pen a convoluted and complicated script in Altantuyaa, without a Judas. Notwithstanding the uncanny relevance to the venial sins - Gluttony • Greed • Sloth • Pride • Lust • Envy • Wrath - well embedded in the Mongolian affair, where would the script writer begin, without a determined and scaldingly intelligent brute - or is there one in the mix!

• Seven deadly Sins •   ©Sidecar Publicidad

When you pass a word you do not understand, you will encounter and bypass other misunderstood words. Eventually, the subject matter becomes fuzzy, causing you to misunderstand the theme. Thus, the way to appreciate a topic is to decipher misunderstood words as you read.

Walker will learn that the father of the murdered girl reported his 'missing' daughter to the Malaysian police but was told that she was not in the country, as there were no immigration disembarkation records to prove she entered Malaysia.

Walker will learn that the police - due to public pressure as he would be made to understand - eventually interrogated two of their own officers who grudgingly fetched homicide detectives to the scene of the crime and that the rogue policemen were charged in court for murdering the girl, convicted of the charge and of their current position on death row.

Walker will learn - as screen-played in Se7en - that he has his butchered girl and no Judas but, unlike his signature script, the beautiful Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa had managed to attract total strangers to her person with no motive, save being layered, protected and paid well to dispatch her in such a dastardly mode.

Walker will learn that despite attempts by police to present a collaboration between a man-beast and a garden-variety brute, the public was instead introduced to a couple of home-grown assassins well entrenched in public service who regarded their handiwork as another day in the office but were, as dung hit the fan, abandoned by their master to weeping Ronins.

Walker will learn that the Malaysian public struts itself in the notion that it is they who 'got the bastard' and that it is a beguiled lot that holds a morbid fascination for an equally morbid narrative and that, in its frenzy to nail the imbecile, it bypassed the proverbial misunderstood word resulting in an unanswered query nestled beneath the storyline.

Walker will appraise the fools and flesh out a Judas in the equation - the one nestled behind the scenes - the one who holds sway over the real killer - the one who commissioned the investigation that was not to be commissioned - the one who told the world about mademoiselle's destruction - the one who is slowly but surely breaking the legs of her demolisher and holds the key to its survival and who regards a wound as an opportunity and two wounds as two opportunities, the one will eventually lead the homeland like Niccolò said he will.

There is a 'Judas' in Walker's 'Altantuyaa'

Words – Tommy Peters