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‘Winner’ Review: Susanna Fogel’s Playful Biopic Paints An Eye-Opening Portrait Of An Accidental Anarchist – Sundance Film Festival
Reality Winner is probably better known in Europe than the US, thanks in part to Tina Satter’s extraordinary arthouse film Reality (2023), which dramatized the 25-year-old Texan translator’s arrest…
By no means as controversial as previous whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange — all she did really was photocopy a piece of paper and send it to a fringe-left website — Reality Winner somehow became a punching bag for the American government, and the disproportionate punishment for her crime could give this film traction in an election year that is being fought more than ever before on a battlefield where principles are the first casualty. There’s a suggestion that Ron has already planted the seeds of social justice in her mind, but when the Twin Towers fall later the same year, Winner is shocked by America’s apparent unwillingness to enter into a dialogue with the Arab world. Even though Winner tells its protagonist’s story with a spoonful of sugar — Pablo Larrain’s anti-Pinochet movie No springs to mind, or even Adam MacKay’s Vice — her punishment begins to seem so cruel that the cruelty canonly be the point.
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