Saturday 22 February 2014

Film Review: The Fifth Estate

Genre:  Biography Drama Thriller 

Cert: 15 cert

Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: A clothed man kisses his girlfriend before leaving his apartment; she is shown under a quilt on the bed (her bare shoulders and arms are exposed and sex is implied). A man and a woman are shown in bed with her shoulders and arms exposed and he is shirtless, exposing his chest, back, arms and shoulders; they kiss in close-up and the scene ends (sex is implied). A woman asks a man if he remembers the last time they had sex and he replies that he will remember the next time and kisses her; they kiss passionately and begin to remove their clothing until a knock at the door stops them and the woman leaves.

Several couples kiss briefly in corners at a dance club. A man seated at a laptop at home hugs his standing girlfriend's waist and hips.

A shirtless man sits at a computer revealing his full back, chest, arms and shoulders and large tattoos cover his back. A young boy washes his hair at a sink and we see his bare back and shoulders. We see a man washing his hair at a sink and his bare back and shoulders are shown. A man and a woman step behind a frosted glass panel and begin unbuttoning their shirts in order to exchange them for disguises and the scene ends; we do not see them wearing each other's clothing.

A woman meeting with a man at a cafe reminds him of a party they attended years ago where she became drunk and he says he remembers staying near her to keep an eye on her; they both smile and seem to be flirting as she mentions that she would like him to come to DC (where she lives), but he says he is unable to do so. We read a message on screen that a man was charged with sexual misconduct with two women. A White House staff member speaks to a man vaguely about their former brief affair. 

Violence & Gore: Masked men with automatic handguns surround a car on a street and shoot two men inside; the windows shatter loudly, the two victims slump forward and blood splatter covers the inside of the car and remaining glass; a man cries when he hears of this murder. A man is killed by helicopter fire and falls dead on a beach (we see some blood). Riot police in Kenya shoot unarmed protesters as many men and women fall (some blood is shown). Black and white film footage shown twice features sniper fire killing military and civilian casualties in Baghdad, while an explosion topples a van onto its roof; we hear that many people died. Three sequences of film footage show soldiers, military cannons, and rifle fire, along with explosions that kick up sand in a desert.

After a warning about assassination attempts a man drives erratically to his home, packs up his family and has a friend drive them to the Syrian-Egyptian border where they are questioned and released. A man becomes fearful and shakes after another man tells him that Russian spies are watching.

A man, in his imagination, smashes computers in a large computer lab, wrecks furniture and sets dozens of large cardboard file boxes on fire, destroying the computer room. A man has a vision of a dark wilderness, the ground covered in gray ashes and burning embers falling around him from the sky. A man imagines himself and young boys around a campfire on a beach at night and all their hair is dyed white.

Two men argue continually about whether to use volunteers or not, reporting news too soon or too late, and about hacking and security risks. A man confronts another man (his business partner) about why an article in a major magazine says that the other man is a founder and then fires him. A man and his girlfriend argue loudly several times about his work on a website and in one scene she leaves angrily (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), slamming the door. Two men argue in a chat room whereupon one of the men begins to publish negative data about the other man on a website, stating that the other man is schizophrenic and a danger to himself and others; the other man curses, shouts and slams his laptop closed. A man speaks harshly to a cat and sweeps it off a pile of papers on a desk during a dinner party and another man takes exception to the first man's behavior and leaves. Staff of a website argue after the release of classified information. Some White House staffers are forced to resign after the release of classified information. Large groups of people are shown protesting around the world and one group is shown making obscene hand gestures. White House staffers argue loudly several times about a whistleblowers' website; one of them goes on TV and says that the founder of the website has blood on his hands, because the information leak will cause murders and assassination; in an interview, the founder states that no one was physically harmed by the release of Afghan war data on his website. A website releases classified information about American actions in Afghanistan and calls it "Collateral Murder." We hear that a man's mother dated a New Zealand Neo-Nazi who imposed starvation diets on them and administered psychiatric drugs randomly (please see the Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking category for more details); the man says that the maltreatment turned his hair white. A man says in a speech that his website will protect whistleblowers and there is no need for them to be afraid of retribution. 

Profanity:  About 7 F-words and its derivatives, a large group of people display obscene hand gestures, 1 sexually suggestive hand gestures, 13 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 19 mild obscenities, name-calling (crazy, madman, sick, gob smacking, High Priest of Truth, freaks, junk, clown, mealy-mouthed, manipulative, spooks, geeks), stereotypical references to reporters, Americans, CEOs, politicians, terrorists, computer hackers, men, women, people who are different, 2 religious profanities (GD), 7 religious exclamations (Oh my God, Thank God, Jesus, God forbid, Christ, Holy [scatological term deleted]).



Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:We hear that a man gave psychiatric drugs to a woman and her son for no reason (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). Beer bottles are seen on a counter at a convention (no one is shown drinking), several dance club scenes feature beer bottles as well as glasses of wine and mixed drinks on tables while some men and women are shown drinking and others dance while holding beer bottles, one scene features a large round bar with bottles of liquor and wine glasses on a center counter, a woman drinks a bottle of beer in a café, a glass of wine is shown in a table beside a woman, a man drinks wine at a table, a man drinks a bottle of beer at a desk, two men drink beer twice while driving and riding in a car, a man gives a farmer a case of bottled beer, a member of the British Parliament says she wants to buy a drink for two men in a crowd, in a home we see men and a woman drink wine, in a restaurant we see two men and a woman drink cocktails and wine, in a pub we see two men drink glasses of beer, a White house staff member speaks of being drunk at a party in the past, a banquet features many tables with glasses of wine (no one is shown drinking), and a woman in an office drinks whiskey as she watches a news telecast and a male colleague enters and drinks whiskey with her.

Frightening/Intense Scenes:  innocent people are shown being shot being & it was mentioned that two children were killed,this maybe disturbing for some viewer. 



Story: The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society-and what are the costs of exposing them?


Likes: Every single review ive seen about this film has been say that this story is one sided or only telling the story of the whistle blower which just show how completely blind people are to the real world & just how corrupt the governments are, the one thing i saw in this film that seriously made my blood boil was the fact they use terrorism as an excuses to killing to kids.
I don't give a sh*t who you are or how powerful you think you are, killing children in the world & covering it up & blaming terrorism as an excuse for killing them, just show how society in this world has fall in to the depth of hell & doing the devils work through greed , power & corruption which this film shown perfect plus shows just how the government's around the world work & pull the wool over some peoples eye's, making them think what they are doing is for peace when behind closed door their killing innocent people over power & hiding it.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange done the right thing by exposing this corruption, the government trying to say that this leak was in dangering other peoples life is hypocritical when they killed million of people off camera & hiding it, if they were that worried this this would be leaked why the f-ing hell did the government do it in the first place, there is an old saying liar get found out in the end, corruption cant hide from thinking smart people.
Benedict Cumberbatch is fantastic in this film show a person with personal issues that also see the corruption in the world & just wants to show the world what are governments were hiding because it the right thing to do to stand up for peoples right to live.
 This film is a very controversial subject  raises some interesting questions and also talks about the challenges we face now with news going out onto today Internet sources. Bank's shouldn't help customers cheat the U.S. out of $30 billion in taxes or any other country in the world,  but I don't believe military strategy should be leaked but i still feel like it should be exposed if its for the wrong reason's, and I believe that sources of family should be protected for their own safety because their innocent but the person in question should be leaked for corruption . It seems like so much of what we hear today, from politicians and celebrities and publicists is "is to spin us off the real truth." And most of us are aware that there's more than they're telling us.
Although slow this film is very interesting in show just how corrupt the world has become.

 

Dislikes: The pace of the film could of been a bit faster in my opinion.

Overall: Interest film on true events to expose corruption in the world, although pace is slow it not a bad film.

Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 7.8 out of 10 for true story/real events




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