10-12-2010, 10:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-12-2010, 11:15 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
For me, the importance of the documentary is in providing us with access to many of the protagonists speaking in front of the camera.
Seeing Assange making political and ideological statements is crucial.
As is seeing and hearing some of the other elements in the wikileaks infrastructure and those involved, for instance, in older exposes such as the Icelandic bank corruption data dump.
And of course the voices of those seeking to suppress the Truth.
Sadly, the apparent or imminent fragmentation, or implosion, of wikileaks was entirely predictable.
Tactical differences and ego clashes are the cursed heart of radical cells.
Ruthlessly driven behaviour where both dictator and dissidents believe they have the truth, and the ideologically pure path, on their side.
I suspect Assange is very difficult to work with. His obsessiveness is both his great strength and his tragic flaw.
But as Assange surely knows, he is not the point. The point is the information that is being released and winning the battle to ensure that it shines light into the places that are deliberately kept in the dark, away from mass view.
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As a technical caveat, the commentary tone and self-awarded omniscience of the narrational voice really grated on me.
There's a film to be made on wikileaks whose form is as radical as the project and the disclosures. This is not it. This documentary was essentially a collection of interviews, of sync. But for that I'm most grateful.
Seeing Assange making political and ideological statements is crucial.
As is seeing and hearing some of the other elements in the wikileaks infrastructure and those involved, for instance, in older exposes such as the Icelandic bank corruption data dump.
And of course the voices of those seeking to suppress the Truth.
Sadly, the apparent or imminent fragmentation, or implosion, of wikileaks was entirely predictable.
Tactical differences and ego clashes are the cursed heart of radical cells.
Ruthlessly driven behaviour where both dictator and dissidents believe they have the truth, and the ideologically pure path, on their side.
I suspect Assange is very difficult to work with. His obsessiveness is both his great strength and his tragic flaw.
But as Assange surely knows, he is not the point. The point is the information that is being released and winning the battle to ensure that it shines light into the places that are deliberately kept in the dark, away from mass view.
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As a technical caveat, the commentary tone and self-awarded omniscience of the narrational voice really grated on me.
There's a film to be made on wikileaks whose form is as radical as the project and the disclosures. This is not it. This documentary was essentially a collection of interviews, of sync. But for that I'm most grateful.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war