We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
- sombre
- cold
- twisty
Sombre, steady, measured documentary / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the right to information, perhaps for generations to come. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is an extensive examination of all things related to WikiLeaks and the larger global debate over access to information.
Our read · We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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