England Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl
Surprisingly good treatment of the Julian Assange/Wikileaks phenomenon. Done as a thriller which works quite well.
We see the story through the eyes of an assistant and shows the extent of the commitment required to take on the existing world power structure. For a time (unfortunately brief) the PTB had no idea how to deal with the universality of the web. Banning publication was meaningless...material could and was spread to multiple sites. And if they can't operate in secrecy they look as terrible as they actually are.
But they eventually figured it out. Assange is now a prisoner in a London embassy...a modern-day Cardinal Mindszenty. How perfect. International predatory capitalism is now as openly heinous as the totalitarian regime that tortured that forgotten cold war hero.
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