Review of The Fifth Estate (2013) by Morgan K — 19 Oct 2013
Despite effective performances by most of the actors in the film, it isn't great like The Social Network. It misses showing any significant consequences of releasing the unredacted Manning files and the retaliation they feared - or somehow that publishing them made Assange well-known enough that he escaped the fate of his friends in Africa.
When they were released in real life I personally did not get the sense that the files revealed anything new about the war. I would have appreciated the film illuminating why they were such a big deal better. Instead it mostly seems like an inconvenience that endangered one person we don't know well who managed to escape.
The sex scandal that is going on in real life is the perfect dramatization of what Assange's life means to the world: is it the truth being leaked or world powers protecting their interests with propaganda? It should have happened halfway through the film, instead of suggested in the epilogue.
This review of The Fifth Estate (2013) was written by Morgan K on 19 Oct 2013.
The Fifth Estate has generally received mixed reviews.
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