Julian Paul Assange loves to uncover secrets and established the "WikiLeaks" website at the end of 2006, accepting anonymous disclosures, and sending them to WikiLeaks in a way that is not easy to reveal their identity. After the person in charge of the website has done a credibility review, These secrets will be presented on the website in the original unedited state and made public to the world. This is a monument in the history of freedom of information and speech, although its entity may be just a laptop with less than $300 in Assange’s hands. It allows the public to know the secrets they are entitled to, including indiscriminate killings by the Kenyan police. Innocent, the Icelandic bank scandal that caused a financial chain reaction and became the initial fuse of the subprime mortgage crisis
. In 2010, Julian Paul Assange became famous because WikiLeaks released a video of the U.S. Apache helicopter air raid on Baghdad, as well as millions of confidential documents.
Director Alex Gibbney believes that Assange has expressed or even fulfilled a certain demand. And the reason why he made the film is: a man roams the world, his weapon is only a laptop-it is difficult to resist such a story. During the filming of the documentary, Alex Gibbney also interviewed many subjects who had been "attacked" by WikiLeaks
. However, because he was unable to get a direct interview opportunity with the imprisoned U.S. leaker Bradley Manning, Alex Gibbney discarded the interview routine that general documentaries abide by and must be based on real life. , Instead of using the subtitles of the online chat to reproduce Bradley Manning’s painful self-struggle in the military and seek relief by leaking military secrets
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WikiLeaks accused Alex Gibbney of selective editing, disrespect of the historical nature of WikiLeaks, and satirical portrayal of Chelsea Manning. Alex Gibbney stated that he just followed the facts and stated the facts, and had no other intentions
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