![]() ![]() Set against the backdrop of opposition that the illegal war faced at the time, Official Secrets has little motivation to get into the why of its position opposite the war and instead focuses on outlining the journey of its heroine tacking information regarding morality, factual innacuracies, lies and deception, and our current position on the events, onto as much of the dialogue as possible in order to fit in everything it feels we need to know. ![]() Consider this what would have happened if the BBC had made Steven Spielberg’s The Post.īased on the true events of a British government agent named Katharine Gun who leaked a memo sent to her organisation by the NSA, the crux of Official Secrets’ story is the moral implication of the American desire to illegally spy on their United Nations counterparts in an attempt to find leverage on enough of a number of national representatives to push through a UN resolution for their war in Iraq, the second Gulf War from the early 2000s. ![]() Keira Knightley is the lead of a star-studded British cast for X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Eye in the Sky director Gavin Hood’s retrospective reevaluation of British national sins that, despite a rocky start filled with expository dialogue and just about every trope of the thriller genre you can imagine, manages to provide a solid telling of an important story that may not keep you on the edge of your seat like the very best of the genre but certainly won’t have you itching for your money back either. Starring: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Ralph Fiennes, Katherine Kelly, Indira Varma, MyAnna Buring, Tamsin Greig, Shaun Dooley Screenwriters: Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein, Gavin Hood ![]()
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