Official Secrets evaluation action
2022-01-10 08:01
"Official Secrets" restores history very accurately, just like learning a history book. This production effect is related to director Gavin Hood, who has a wealth of experience in restoring historical themes of film works. This is a British thriller about espionage and surveillance. The director's description in this work is very low-key, but at the same time the content of the plot is also very ruthless
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The film is a challenging film, showing a strong sense of justice and personal responsibility. But the key is that it lacks action and visual stimulation, because the key event it describes is the leakage of a single email, so it cannot be made into a thrilling feature-length movie
. The film makes the audience feel like a period movie, even though the background of the film is set in the early 21st century
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Extended Reading
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Martin Bright: [on the 2003 anti-war demos] Well, it's everywhere. Every Country. Biggest demonstration in human history!
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[last lines]
Ben Emmerson: Why did you keep her in a state of distress for a year before you brought charges?
Ken Macdonald: The services wanted to make an example of her. If we'd dropped the case any earlier, what kind of messages would that have sent?
Ben Emmerson: Do me a favour, Ken. Go and fish somewhere else.