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Synopsis: Filmed over six years, Risk (2016) is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. Capturing this story, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Laura Poitras
Production: NEON
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
TV-MA
Year:
2016
86 min
$756
120 Views


But the opportunity

can also be extremely high,

And by opportunity I mean

For things that you care about.

Wee need to keep things

in perspective.

I mean, there's-

- I mean-

- The risk of inaction

is extremely high,

And every day

you live your life,

You lose another day of life.

What's the risk

of just sitting there?

I mean, you just lost a day.

You just died a day.

You don't have that many,

so...

If you're not fighting

for the things

That you care about,

and every day is disappearing,

Then, I mean, you are losing.

that's your machine.

It's up here.

It's up here.

- Pick it up so it

doesn't go somewhere else.

Sh*t!

And then you just rip that-

Pick it up

and press the green button.

- Yes,

you called on this box.

Julian assange.

No, I was in the house.

- It's about you getting

your mind into

Not using language

that sounds hostile to women

Or to suggest that in general,

Women are absolutely entitled

To bring cases

against men who rape.

Your position is,

"I'm not one of them. "

You know?

So you have to sort of

Find the language that,

you know-

That helps you

to explain that,

Other than sounding as if

you're somebody who thinks that,

You know, this is all a mad,

um...

Feminist conspiracy.

I don't think

that's helpful to you.

- No, to say it publicly

is not helpful.

- I know,

but I'd like to persuade you

That it isn't true as well.

- Privately, it's-

- it feels like it to you.

- Privately,

it's a social democratic party

Plus general influence

from the government.

It's just a thoroughly...

Tawdry radical feminist

Political positioning thing.

It's some-some stereotype.

- And you stumbled

into this nest of-of-

Yes.

She started the lesbian

nightclub in gothenburg.

- I mean, you know,

but what people would say is,

"well, you know, what's her

setting up a lesbian nightclub

Got to do with the price

of fish?" you know-

- No, I know.

She's in that circle-

That circle of-

- she's-you know,

The fact that somebody

is a feminist,

And even a radical feminist,

doesn't mean-

- You know the krens?

The police woman I have

Been running as a tag team.

- But, julian, you see...

- They go to krens.

- I want to stop you using

That kind of language of saying

"they were running

as a tag team,"

And so on, because,

you know,

It's making it as if-

- not in public. I just say-

Yeah, but I mean, of course-

An actual court case.

I mean, it's going to be very,

very hard for these women.

They'll be reviled forever

By a large segment

of the global population,

And so...

I don't think

it's in their interest

To proceed that way.

If I was them, I would go-

They need to save face,

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Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras (; born February 2, 1964) is an American director and producer of documentary films. She lives in New York City.Poitras has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Citizenfour, about Edward Snowden, while My Country, My Country received a nomination in the same category in 2007. She won the 2013 George Polk Award for "national security reporting" related to the NSA disclosures. The NSA reporting by Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, and Barton Gellman contributed to the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service awarded jointly to The Guardian and The Washington Post.She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2012 MacArthur Fellow, the creator of Field of Vision, and one of the initial supporters of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. more…

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