At a time when corruption, greed, self-interest, deceit, obfuscation and vulgarity seem to be the rule, we need to remember that honest, decent, moral, ethic people are still among us.
Katharine Gun is one of these individuals. In 2003, she was a British intelligence specialist who received an official memo from the US directing Britain to join in an illegal plot to enlist UN countries to vote for the war in Iraq.
Outraged at the deception and aware of the lives that would be lost, Gun blows the whistle on this scheme. As we know, it didn't stop the war. But it did get Gun arrested for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
The movie is part political thriller, part newspaper story, part courtroom drama. It doesn't use sensationalist or gimmicky measures to intrigue the audience, still the Movie Slut was riveted throughout.
Kudos to Keira Knightley for portraying Gun as the larger-than-life woman she is.
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