The Academy Award-winner attempts to make sense of the still-unfolding drama of Julian Assange.
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When the upstart online organization WikiLeaks began releasing classified cables, documents and videos in 2010, the world's reaction ranged from jubilation to sheer horror. For those who believe in a transparent government, here, it seemed, was shocking evidence of the dirty work the most powerful countries in the world would do anything to keep secret (this included a video that proved U.S. troops covered up the murder of two Reuters journalists in Iraq). For those charged with fighting the still-nascent War on Terror, it was a damaging act that placed spies and diplomats in mortal danger. Was WikiLeaks leveling the playing field or destabilizing the global balance of power?
It will be years before the impact of WikiLeaks' whistle-blowing activities are fully known, though it is clear from the Edward Snowden/NSA affair that a new era of unfettered truth-telling is upon us. How we got to this place is the focus of Bill Condon's challenging film THE FIFTH ESTATE, which depicts in procedural form how the fiercely intelligent Julian Assange rose from common hacker to one of the most wanted men in the world. Based on two books (INSIDE WIKILEAKS: MY TIME WITH JULIAN ASSANGE AT THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS WEBSITE by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and WIKILEAKS: INSIDE JULIAN ASSANGE'S WAR ON SECRECY by David Leigh and Luke Harding), Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer have pared down the story to its dramatic essentials: this is about two men - Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) - who were brought together by
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