RISK: A Film by Laura Poitras
John Newman
jnn at synfin.org
Wed May 31 04:39:39 PDT 2017
> On May 30, 2017, at 4:36 PM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 May 2017 18:41:30 -0400
> grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021PuzHG_YA
>> https://www.youtube.com/results?q=risk+poitras&sp=CAI%=
>> infohash: 4D0FA67D82682390D7920E1930B02CB45B3CAB96
>
>
> "...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.”
>
> 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)
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