2013 · drama · thriller · political
The Fifth Estate
Directed by Bill Condon2h 8m2013
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Our read: The Fifth Estate (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, gentle drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
- twisty
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