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title: "Official Secrets"
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# Official Secrets

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She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm's way.

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Drama
- **Format:** NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Contributor:** Adam Bakri, Gavin Hood, Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 52 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Most impressive docudrama: the docu more so than the drama, but first-rank feelgood movie
  

*by D***. on Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019*

A superb account of Katherine Gun's heroic actions and the disgraceful attempt at reprisal by the UK government. There are some quite complicated issues here, particularly the legal defence case. These are explained with admirable clarity.The three principals - Keira Knightley as the conscience-striken source, Matt Smith as a journalist straight out of the Woodward and Bernstein school and Ralph Fiennes as a lawyer for whom Portia might have been a prototype -  face an unusual challenge. Their characters are wholly admirable, but getting this across with credibility, rather than presenting them as unbelievable saints, is no easy task and they accomplish this very well.Alas, though, beyond that, the drama lacks subtlety. When the tension rises, the default is to have the characters  start shouting at each other. I guess this can be laid at the feet of the director.So I backed off from 5*, but I wish I could have given 4½*.(2½ years later)I have upgraded from 4* to 5*. Whilst I maintain my complaint about the shouting, what I appreciated on this viewing is what a wonderful feelgood movie this is. Given the horrors in the world at the moment, I needed a feelgood movie to lift my spirits and this did so wonderfully.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Self-Discovery in the Extreme
  

*by H***G on Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019*

“Don’t try this at home.”WARNING! No spoiler statements intended, yet my words get close.Read the following legal-disclaimer statement, shown at the movie’s end, then watch it, thoughtfully:“The events portrayed in this film are based on true events. Some aspects of this portrayal have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes. The characters portrayed have also been fictionalized for dramatic purposes, such that any resemblance between them and living individuals should not be inferred.”Official Secrets” begins improbably, develops a story based on an actual event, and ends in a manner to which it’s worth paying attention, regardless of your political preferences.The main character, Katherine Teresa Gun decides to become a spy.If you were faced with what Katherine discovered and made an impulsive and irrational decision and risked paying the prices she paid, would you act similarly?Now when you’re faced with smaller value-related issues and face smaller possible penalties, perhaps even daily, would you ---did you --- act similarly, if not proportionally?Our values are almost always different, in some way. What are your values?Watch the full move; think about it, then practice what you decide. The experience may help you become a little more of the person you’d like to be.Consider this: How believable is it that someone would be having a dialogue, with her husband (a non-British, middle-eastern husband), expressing to him what she does, while working as a translator, for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ: Britain’s signals intelligence agency), presumably with a top-secret security clearance, And, she’s sufficiently emotionally involved with what she’s read while working at GCHQ, she begins yelling at Prime Minister Tony Blair and calling him a liar, while he’s shown talking on her TV, while she’s still bound by the British Official Secrets Act of 1989.Such is how this story and movie begins.The docudrama-story might begin better, if Katherine were introduced as a calm, rational analyst whose objection begins with evidence-discovery and validation. Instead, she is introduced, unfortunately, but probably accurately, as a naïve, impulsive, irrational, inexperienced, poorly vetted and ineffectively selected young employee. How else might you begin writing this story?Perhaps with the antiwar activist, Jasmine her friend, might have been a better character with which to begin this movie. In the movie, she appears knowledgeable and competent, giving the impression she knows the rules of the game and how to play them.As the story worms its way through its tightly designed Gordian knot, it begins to take a more believable shape and gets intriguing.It increasingly begins to feel as if the U.S. and international intelligence culture helped write the script that Katherine exposed, to protect its behind. After all, “its” alleged evidence and recommendations are what got us into that war.Did the U.S. intelligence community dupe Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfield or did and Bush, Blair, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfield dupe and control them? Or, was (is) there something else? If any of or all these circumstances occurred, the outcome is terrible --- the behavior unacceptable and future potential outcomes concerning, if not frightening.We need to know more about how the U.S. intelligence community interacts with the three branches of the U.S. Government and its citizens. And how the U.S. Government branches control the intelligent agencies and their international activities — if it does.Watch the movie, then self-discover and decide who you feel is in charge.Who is really pulling the strings?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great move based on real events.
  

*by W***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2023*

I like Keira Knightley so I watched this movie one night when I was bored and found it on a streaming service, knowing nothing about it.  I learned that it was based on real events surrounding the Bush administration leveraging intelligence against UN Security Council members to get them to green light taking us to war in Iraq, with UK backing. I watched a lot of news around that time and don't remember this making the news in the American media.Anyway, it was a very well made movie. I didn't see a book that exists surrounding this story.

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