Chris Stuckmann reviews Official Secrets, starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans. The job in "Official Secrets" is considerably less exciting. Each workday, Katharine settles into her cubicle in a sepulchral GCHQ office where she If she personifies individual conscience — she is livid that her government would lie to its people — Ben, the movie suggests, has a deeper, nobler claim.
Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the. Parents need to know that Official Secrets is a drama based on the true story of whistleblower Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), who leaked information about the United States'.
Official Secrets is a very well done and very important political thriller, it won the best Foreign Film Award at the Traverse City Film Festival that I attended, so that goes to prove that it has a lasting effect, and I agree. So if you're willing to believe in what the story is telling you, it has great performances. If Official Secrets falls down it's in a lack of confidence that an audience will follow the complex machinations, constantly recapping to make sure we It also falls into too many 'movie-movie' tropes, be it shout-y British newspaper editors or a last-gasp attempt to stop a key character being deported. Official Secrets is about the leaked memo that would have the British government spying on select members of the United Nations in an effort to start the Iraq War. I'm not sure what's most interesting — in the Chinese sense of the word — about Official Secrets. In some people's eyes, Katherine Gun—a translator for the British Government Communications Headquarters—is nothing Katherine, shocked by this official-but-secret request and its implied attempt to manipulate Britain into joining a war, makes a decision to do something.
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Gavin Hood's Official Secrets gives righteous treatment to such a worthy story and builds a stoic thriller by layering its merits with an eye for Clear eyes in three prongs (personal, journalistic, and legal) are just what this movie is built on. The movie looks polished enough, and editor Megan Gill weaves in plenty of news clips from the era, with key figures like Bush, Blair, Colin Powell and White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a. Love me a good political espionage movie.
This would make a good double feature with either Vice or The Report in terms of topic but this isn't. Thank you for rating this movie! Official Secrets, despite its blasé title, despite the fact that this "true" story isn't on a LeCarre level, in spite of its paucity of dramatic outbursts, is still a most engrossing history reminder. Official Secrets is a timely, ambitious if broad take on a complex subject, but remains engaging and entertaining.