![]() Months later, she was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, mostly on the grounds that the Blair and Bush governments were embarrassed to have been caught. ![]() In February of that year, a memo was sent to everyone in Gun's office that more or less openly declared that those two governments were looking to blackmail the rest of the United Nations Security Council into going along with the war after a short spate of furious doubt, she leaked the memo to the press, managing to interrupt the rush to war by roughly the length of one afternoon. This time, it's also a true story about Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a translator working for a British intelligence agency in 2003, in the weeks before the United States and United Kingdom led a military coalition into Iraq. Once again, the subject is the morality of making choices versus going out of your way to not make choices once again, the backdrop is the disastrous series of military excursions gathered under the blanket name "the war on terror". And it's still a good deal more engaging than anything with so many scenes of people talking rather than doing would have any obvious reason to be. His newest work, Official Secrets, doesn't live up to the standard that film set, which I suppose was probably inevitable, but it does find him working somewhat of the same vibe, and probably not by accident, working with the same editor, Megan Gill, the same composer, Mark Kilian, and much of the same sound team - all the people broadly responsible for setting the rhythm of a film, in other words. ![]() Eye in the Sky, from 2015, is one of the decade's most airtight thrillers, somehow managing to fill 102 minutes with sweaty tension while depicting characters who deliberately and conspicuously aren't doing anything. Gavin Hood is an extremely inconsistent director (and calling the man who signed his name to X-Men Origins: Wolverine "inconsistent" is paying him a very nice big compliment, I think), but his last feature is one that left me inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. ![]()
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