{"id":941,"date":"2014-02-04T05:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=941"},"modified":"2014-02-04T05:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:59:32","slug":"review-the-fifth-estate-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/02\/04\/review-the-fifth-estate-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Fifth Estate (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This film is of course about Wiki leaks and Julian Assange played brilliantly by Benedict <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The_Fifth_Estate_35322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-942\" alt=\"The_Fifth_Estate_35322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/The_Fifth_Estate_35322-300x156.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing\u00a0<em>We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t really ready for the worldwide attention he received, being a quiet person with his head always stuck in his computer.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A very interesting film that puts all of the events that made up Wiki Leaks together well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This film is of course about Wiki leaks and Julian Assange played brilliantly by Benedict Cumberbatch. After seeing\u00a0We 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/02\/04\/review-the-fifth-estate-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: The Fifth Estate (2013)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}