Who is the traitor, or the crime of treason? You were born and raised; Is your ancestor or land that you are a country of, that you love with the people and the country you are a citizen of? So who do you account for treason? Is it for the government officials who have been elected by the votes of the people for a certain period and who have carved out the laws according to their interests or the people themselves?
We entered with a multi-question paragraph; Because Katharine Gun’s real-life story adapted from the official Secret (Offical Secret) film, all these questions in the lap of the audience, so to speak, as if leaving the scene. Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009); Ender’s Game (2013)), the director of Eye In Sky, which we can call another war drama, is a customary biographical book (“The Spy”). “Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion”).
If we talk about the core story for those who do not know, in the days before the US invasion of Iraq, an internal correspondence falls between the mail of the British intelligence agency GCHQ officer Katharine Gun, before the UN Security Council meetings where the occupation is discussed and the process will be voted; as for other employees in the same unit. But the intelligence work requested from the unit – as an order – is part of the NSA spy operation that the US wants to blackmail UN delegates.
Employees in the department also realize that there is a ‘disability işte in this business, but they continue to work without questioning anyone. Except one person: Yes, Katharine Gun. Gun, who leaked this scandal-sized intelligence order to the press through a friend, confessed that the leak came from him without much hiding; but he intentionally did so to reveal the dirty face of war to the people and to protect the British people. It is not very unfair; for the legitimacy of the British government is more and more evident in the fact that the Oval Office has an tongs inde in the hands of the Oval Office rather than partnership with the United States for a questioned war.
From the first moment of information leakage, the film proceeds at a bumpy pace; even Gun’s confession comes so early that you think the scenario has lost all its mystery. However, director Gavin Hood takes the second half of the film out of a personal ‘conscientious thriller göstermek axis and uses it to show how the British government has gone after the invasion of Iraq ınca when weapons of mass destruction cannot be found.
In the side stories supporting the main frame, the question of how free the free press remained or that it was pro-government and degenerated was another question. because Yaşar is both Kurdish and Muslim! Her presence in the UK depends on the renewal of her residence permit. The government, which has waged war on the Gun family, does not miss this opportunity, and it collapses like a real nightmare upon the immigrant Yasar.
In acting, Keira Knightley manages to bring the main character to the big screen as a living person; but, as we had hoped, not an Oscar-winning Knightley performance. The most outstanding performance of the non-Knightley film comes from Ralph Fiennes as Ben Emmerson, Gun’s advocate in the second part of the film. Fiennes’s firm and stubborn character, ultimately acquires Katharine Gun.
By inter alia, the first Friday of the year vision, biographical crime and drama in the category itself can watch, moreover, the audience pushed to question the Official Secrets. Who was the traitor in the last place?
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Official Secrets (2019)
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Starring: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, Jeremy Northam, Katherine Kelly, Tamsin Greig, Hattie Morahan, Jack Farthing
Screenplay by: Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein
Production Design by: Simon Rogers
Cinematogrphy by: Florian Hoffmeister
Film Editing by: Megan Gill
Costume Design by: Claire Finlay
Set Decoration by: David Morison
Art Direction by: Ben Clements, Bill Crutcher, Andy Watson
Music by: Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributor: IFC Films
Release Date: August 30, 2019
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