![]() Politically, you can see why they signed on. The film isn’t quite as dry as a history lecture, enlivened by some empassioned performances by an A-list of British character actors, including Smith, Ralph Fiennes (an activist lawyer), Tamsin Greig (an editor), J eremy Northam (head of the office charged to prosecute), and Matthew Goode and Rhys Ifans as Jekyll and Hyde reporters coming at the story from different perspectives. And it’s about the wary and tentative way the Observer newspaper and reporter Martin Bright (former Doctor Who Matt Smith) approached the leak, and “official” acts to intimidate and punish her and - a separate issue - actually prosecute Gun under the broad “Official Secrets Act.” She did not come to her “treason” easily. The latest political thriller from Gavin Hood, the South African director who gave us “Tsotsi,” “Rendition” and “Eye in the Sky” (an a “Wolverine” movie) is an arcane, somewhat static docu-drama about the real-life struggles of Kat Gun. ![]() Allow this to go on, or expose this “illegal war” (as detailed in British law) by any means necessary. Bush’s war, a civil servant like Kat Gun is on the horns of a dilemma. ![]() National Security Agency officials detailing how facts will be bent, foreign countries will be blackmailed and other chicanery used to justify George W. When you’re in “sig-int” (signals intelligence) and you can read emails, dispatches and communiques from U.S. As played by Keira Knightley in “Official Secrets,” she’s a woman of conscience and considered impulse, who’d shout at the TV coverage of the rushed, relentless and patently dishonest rush to war with Iraq in 2003.īush or Blair or Colin Powell, it didn’t matter. Non-disclosure forms mean you can’t even discuss what you do for the government with your lawyer, preparing your defense. There the biggest catch of them all might be “The Official Secrets Act,” a sweeping anti-leaks law that makes the mere act of defending yourself from charges that you let state secrets out of your hands is pretty much illegal.’ ![]()
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