"Fifth Power" Movie Cinéma

At the end of " Fifth power," Julian Assange (the character , not the real one) is invited to react to the film which he is the object. He said something like " yesh , not bad, but the truth is elsewhere. " It is not far from being even harder : Assange reality , truth, is infinitely more interesting than the film dedicated to him . Adding that this biopic more , simply by enclosing the founder of WikiLeaks in the morphotype of the bizarre- but - brilliant - and controversial celebrity , completes trivialize or completely denigrate its place in history .

The major problem of the " Fifth power" hybrid object that dream big mash high tech to Michael Mann, is to have a very musty Amstrad CPC software only aesthetic arsenal. If brush quite rightly sociological picture of a new generation of revolutionary intellectuals geeks, sophisticated as Warhol, exalted as Guevara and festive as the Green Négresses the hack Bill Condon ( "Twilight" 4 and 5) is completely overwhelmed when it attempts to capture the insidious force of hacking or the immediacy of digital streams .

Interspersed with annoying black holes ( the issue of material subsistence lieutenants Assange , without being addressed , is a total failure ), the action is confined to a succession razor fields / fields against returning its illegal chatters back PC to PC back when it is not wallowing in educational metaphor worthy of a cardboard picture of Fred and Jamy . To include the operation of the WikiLeaks network? Newsroom of sight , which accumulates and ignites a huge paperwork. This is not rocket science, they tell you the images of large administrative records coming out of closets or burn in wastebaskets and therefore represent the diffusion blocking scoops , according to the divisions of the Assange team. No panic , then. Even 5-10 years pigeront migraine without the mysteries of web nebula.

This inability to shoot elegantly what is modern and what is slightly abstract , brings all the same level of kitsch a " Wargames " , the freshness of the novel within the grandiloquence of the biopic and more . Condon never tires of daub psychology tormented Assange, that Benedict Cumberbacht his face gargoyle peroxidized and large - psychotic nerd air, into the PLC grimaces rusty . And horse- dose injection of treason in Shakespearean cyber slurry ( the narrator is an angry
right arm of the hero) , with great fanfare lyricism deafening , does not help the matter - the music is thicker than a cloud napalm .

Another hassle , " the Fifth Power" suffers from a commercial contradiction that its staging never managed to overcome . Like a pack of large newer machines ( "Thor 2", " Hunger games - kindling " ), the film undertakes to reassure a core of the subject while trying to seduce the world . Hence this very indigestible stack extreme foci ( sphere WikiLeaks , the cocoon of geekitude ) and heavy didacticism which borders on permanent court catches ( on hacking , shortness of traditional media face to the Internet, messes any diplomatic etc) , which reinforces the impression of a narrative bent under the anti- dry - . the last third takes the form of a footnote on page giant .

Worse, instead of producing an ambiguity sobering , the film delivers a decidedly cowardly perspective, between homage and prevention, pros and cons , the " probably " and " yes, but " . In fact, " The Fifth Power" is less a movie than a Wikipedia WikiLeaks WikiLeaks film