RISK: A Film by Laura Poitras

[Marina Brown]

On 05/31/2017 07:39 AM, John Newman wrote:
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>> On May 30, 2017, at 4:36 PM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 29 May 2017 18:41:30 -0400
>> grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021PuzHG_YA
>>> https://www.youtube.com/results?q=risk+poitras&sp=CAI%=
>>> infohash: 4D0FA67D82682390D7920E1930B02CB45B3CAB96
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>>         "...Poitras made significant changes in the film over
>>         the past year (since a screening at the 2016 Cannes
>>         film festival). According to various accounts, it was
>>         “a much more straightforward, positive portrayal of
>>         WikiLeaks and Assange,” an “activist documentary” that
>>         made “an overwhelming case for Assange as a political
>>         prisoner.”
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>>        But this was prior to the exposure of the Democratic
>>        Party’s corrupt inner workings by WikiLeaks and claims
>>        that the Russians were involved, supposedly to aid
>>        Donald Trump. As Slate notes, “Subsequently, Poitras
>>        spent months revising her film for release this Friday.”
>>
>>        These facts alone should alert the reader to much of
>>        what he or she needs to know. Poitras has accommodated
>>        herself in part to the hysteria, driven by the
>>        Democratic Party hierarchy, over alleged Russian
>>        interference in the US elections.
>>
>>        That would be bad enough, but in addition and
>>        connected to that, the filmmaker has
>>        essentially bowed to the pressure of the
>>        incessant and reactionary claims that Assange
>>        is a “sexual predator.” "
>>
>>        et cetera
> 
> It would obviously be fascinating to get a copy of the Cannes cut.
> I wonder if it will see the light of day (my guess is not, but who knows)
> 

Not that i really care on a deep level about Russia-Trump machinations.
In the end it is just another powerful leader playing power games.

I would love to see what Assange has on Trump. I expect he will release
it when it is most damaging. That seems to be what he does.

--- M

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