Il quinto potere

Everything if someone thinks it is interesting they evaluate if it would make a good movie. In this case, it was Daniel Domscheit-Berg that wrote the book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website." A history of WikiLeaks and the impact it has had on the world consciousness. Like Daniel Domscheit-Berg, we start at the beginning.

I am impressed that the film was able to wrangle in some fair actors; quite a few too many to mention in this review. There is no way to tell between what the real story is and what is manufactured to create what is supposed to look like a documentary.

Are we also to believe the parallel stories of tensions between the top leakers or the love story between office coworkers or anything thrown in to make this a more than one-dimensional presentation?

The presentation includes lots of loud background music that mostly represents time passing. There are lots of old camera tricks like circling the subject. Scenes were tossed in as metaphors.

I watched the Blu-ray version which helped with the aesthetics but probably did not contribute anything to the story. The extras on the DVD try it justify the sea realistic metaphor scenes. There is a section "Scoring Secrets" on how to make background noise.

"No One Can Bar the Road to Truth" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn.