C.takes i back over twenty years, to the Iraq war of 2003, Official Secrets, film of 2019 which tells the true story of Katharine Gun, British security analyst and translator who exposed the illegitimate pressures that United States And England they have accomplished to authorize the conflict. It’s a intense movieabout a little known event of that time, which resulted the protagonist to risk her life and prison in the name of an ethical sense of justice. In broadcast on Rai 3 tonight at 21.25sounds like a warning today that we are grappling with another conflict, the one in Ukraine. To play the protagonist is a superb one Keira Knightley.
Official secrets: the plot
Katharine Gun (Knightley) in 2003 is just a translator working at Government Communications Headquarters, theregovernment agency British which deals with security, espionage And counterintelligence. He is only 28 years old. Idealist and pure, she discovers a secret email in which the director of the National Security Agency (NsaL’American National Security Agency, body of US Department of Defense which, together with CIA and Fbi deals with national security) asks to spy, to gather information, some delegates to the United Nations Security Council (Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, and Pakistan). The goal is to find a way to get them to vote for UN resolution that would have allowed USA and Great Britain to have a vote in favor ofinvasion of Iraq.
Katharine Gun he knows this request is illegitimate. Torn by doubt whether to respect the secrecy of the email or disseminate its content so that the world knows the petty backstories that are leading to one of the worst conflicts of the new century, choose not to remain silent. Send the email to a friend who sends it to a reporter from British The Observer. The newspaper publishes the news on the front page. A “state case” breaks out. There GCHQ start the hunt for “Spy who betrayed”. Katharine Gunseeing that colleagues unrelated to the fact risked their jobs and their lives, ha the courage to publicly take responsibility. She is immediately arrested with the accusation of violations of state secrets.
Katharine Gun remains only one night in custody because the prosecutor refuses to present valid evidence to support the accusation, but begins, for her, a dramatic battle judicial to defend against the accusation of espionage and having divulged national secrets.
Keira Knightley in “Official Secrets”. (Ipa)
A success in an era of fierce fighting
Official secrets is a film that has had an excellent response at the box office, collecting only in the first weekend in theaters beyond 2 millions from dollars. It tells well the personal drama that the protagonist lived, first torn between having to respect the state secret and her personal sense of ethical integrity, then to face the ordeal to defend herself from the trial launched against her. Excellent Matt Smith as the reporter Martin BrightAnd Ralph Fiennes in those of the lawyer Ben Emmerson.
That was the era ofGeorge W. Bush’s Americaof the Security Advisor Condoleezza Riceof the Secretary of State Colin Powellour premier was Silvio Berlusconi. The whole world was still shaken and frightened by the attacks of 11 September. The imperative of “War on terrorism” which led to the invasion ofAfghanistan was declined in the “total war”. The temptation (later realized) to overturn the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein it prevailed in the halls of power, while people in the squares around the world begged for peace.
What happened then to the protagonist Katharine Gun
Katharine Gun has become a kind of modern heroine. He has indeed collected the support of activists, ordinary people and even celebrities of the show like Sean Penn.
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