Le cinquième pouvoir

Original title: The Fifth Estate

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6.2/10

43K

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Daniel Brühl and Benedict Cumberbatch in Le cinquième pouvoir (2013)

A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st centuryÂ’s most fiercely debated organization.

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A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debate... Read allA dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

43K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total

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Trivia
Julian Assange emailed Benedict Cumberbatch to ask him to not to participate in the film.

Goofs
After Julian and Daniel fight and finally split up there is a shot of the streets outside Daniel's apartment by night. Two cars drive past backwards, revealing the film has been played in reverse.

Quotes
Julian Assange: If you want the truth, no one is going to tell you the truth, they're going to tell you their version. So if you want the truth, you have to seek it out for yourself. In fact that's where power lies, in your willingness to look beyond this story, any story. And as long as you keep searching, you are dangerous to them. That's what they're afraid of: you. It's all about you. And a little bit about me too.

Connections
Featured in The Agenda with Tom Bradby: Episode #4.1 (2013)

Soundtracks
Stompbox (Spor Remix)
Written by Liam Black, Leon Harris and Daniel Arnold
Performed by The Qemists
Courtesy of Ninja Tune

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Featured review

6/10

"Give a man a mask and he will tell the truth." - Oscar Wilde.

Everything if someone thinks it is interesting they evaluate if it would make a good movie. In this case, it was Daniel Domscheit-Berg that wrote the book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website." A history of WikiLeaks and the impact it has had on the world consciousness. Like Daniel Domscheit-Berg, we start at the beginning.

I am impressed that the film was able to wrangle in some fair actors; quite a few too many to mention in this review. There is no way to tell between what the real story is and what is manufactured to create what is supposed to look like a documentary.

Are we also to believe the parallel stories of tensions between the top leakers or the love story between office coworkers or anything thrown in to make this a more than one-dimensional presentation?

The presentation includes lots of loud background music that mostly represents time passing. There are lots of old camera tricks like circling the subject. Scenes were tossed in as metaphors.

I watched the Blu-ray version which helped with the aesthetics but probably did not contribute anything to the story. The extras on the DVD try it justify the sea realistic metaphor scenes. There is a section "Scoring Secrets" on how to make background noise.

"No One Can Bar the Road to Truth" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn.