Review: The Fifth Estate (2013)

This film is of course about Wiki leaks and Julian Assange played brilliantly by Benedict The_Fifth_Estate_35322Cumberbatch.

After seeing We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks I am prepared to accept that this film version is a fair assessment of the entire Wikileaks affair, the film is based on two books written about the incidents by close associates of Assange.

The film is not exactly very flattering to Julian Assange, it proposes him as unable to control his ego which seems fairly consistent with the real life person from what I have seen in the preceding documentary. I guess in his defense though he wasn’t really ready for the worldwide attention he received, being a quiet person with his head always stuck in his computer.

Also I may simply have been duped by the meglo-media machine into perceiving him that way, what you film and how you edit can very often determine the spin a director wants to put on a subject and how we perceive them.

A very interesting film that puts all of the events that made up Wiki Leaks together well.

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