3/6/2023 0 Comments Official secrets![]() He is a big name obviously, so he is the only one who gets scenes without Knightley's character too because he has the star potential. And then there is Ralph Fiennes, who plays a major supporting character in the second half of the film, namely the main character's lawyer. Rhys Ifans is also easy to identify as always. Former Doctor Who Matt Smith I am not really that big on, but that is just personal taste. Matthew Goode I like as always, even if he was a bit tough to identify at times here. But as for the film, it needs to be said that you will probably recognize more faces. This summarizes the premise really well I would say and I will talk a bit more later on about everything that happens after she becomes a whistleblower. Gun is and why she did what she did, let me just say she is basically the British female equivalent to Mr. Here she plays Katharine Gun and before I get too much into detail explaining who Mrs. Plus she is only 3 months younger than me, so basically my age. ![]() I think she played her part really well and proved without a doubt that she is still among the best the UK has to offer in terms of actresses under the age of 40. But maybe she can sneak in for a third time with this film. The big star at the center of it all is Keira Knightley and I like her, so I am glad her career is still heading in the right direction after her Oscar nominations really happened a long time ago already. He is also one of the writers because he and the Goldsteins adapted the book into a screenplay of 110 minutes here. "Official Secrets" is a British/American co-production mostly in the English language and this (already) award-winning film is the most recent directorial effort by South African BAFTA nominee Gavin Hood (Tsotsi). But the effect on most will be excruciating cognitive dissonance between the world we think we live in and the actual power structures that manipulate us into handing our tax money over to kill poor people overseas for geostrategic reasons that benefit no one except the very rich and powerful. It's a great yarn well told, Knightly is perfect as Katharine Gun, and it has a lot of very interesting old footage from the time which will have you shouting at the screen in frustration. The butchery-for-Raytheon profits continue with no end in sight. We continue to be deliberately and criminally deceived about these so-called humanitarian wars by a media that continues their fawning sycophantic support of the war-loving establishment. Intelligence agencies continue to illicitly gather compromising material to use as blackmail and extortion on people who might stand in the way of this war-for-profit gravy train. Bush and Blair continue to be celebrated in high society. Perhaps the most emotionally distressing aspect is the underlying knowledge that absolutely nothing has changed on any level of power, in any way, since this extraordinary deception. ![]() If you want to become freshly enraged about the massive war crime we call the Iraq war, go see this film.
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