2019 · thriller · history · drama
Official Secrets
Directed by Gavin Hood1h 52m2019
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Our read: Official Secrets (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · history · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured thriller / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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