We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (available on NetFlix Instant)
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My first Alex Gibney doc. If you're going to watch both this and The Fifth Estate, I'd advise watching the latter first; I did. The doc is pretty good, with lots of flashy visual effects (more than the fictionalized movie, probably), but Gibney appears to go too easy on his subjects sometimes. Also, towards the end, there's a brief assertion that now-Chelsea Manning's massive data leak probably didn't do much actual damage, and then we're on to the next thing. Wait, what? Isn't that question a pretty major one for our understanding of the whole thing? Shouldn't we spend some real time on that?
So, a bit superficial, but not in an incoherent or duplicitous way. I'll give it a B.
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My first Alex Gibney doc. If you're going to watch both this and The Fifth Estate, I'd advise watching the latter first; I did. The doc is pretty good, with lots of flashy visual effects (more than the fictionalized movie, probably), but Gibney appears to go too easy on his subjects sometimes. Also, towards the end, there's a brief assertion that now-Chelsea Manning's massive data leak probably didn't do much actual damage, and then we're on to the next thing. Wait, what? Isn't that question a pretty major one for our understanding of the whole thing? Shouldn't we spend some real time on that?
So, a bit superficial, but not in an incoherent or duplicitous way. I'll give it a B.
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