Official Secrets

2019 • 111 minute

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She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm's way.

Graderings en resensies

I note Ross below showing his self-hating gender ideals with "stupid little men in power." In fact, a helluva lot of women were in the row facilitating the machination of lies and subterfuge that this movie deals with, not the least being Cherie Blair. Sorry to start this review like this but inverse-chauvinist nitwits like him really get my goat. He seems to have forgotten that Julian Assange is currently still ensnared in a matter of direct similarity. Having said, this is one of those biopics that which help to establish the truth surrounding 'the illegal war.' This is the story of a moral hero and an act of courage in a miasma of fear. Flawless.

Superb story told brilliantly that makes facts so much more interesting than fiction. It exposes the corruption of governments and the bravery and courage one woman's decision to expose the lies that stupid little men make who are in power. Loved it to bits -well worth a watch

Great ensemble cast. Informative and thought provoking.