Official Secrets

I can't help but wonder how many events like this one, or to a similar end, have happened without the public ever knowing about them. Honestly, the world could do with a few more selfless people who decide to turn into whistleblowers for the greater good of humanity. Katharine should be applauded. Shame on anyone who promotes unnecessary war, unlawful invasion and the murdering of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Greedy killers hiding beneath their "defenders of freedom" cloak. Shame on them.

**I'm a fan if you can keep me as engaged as any of the Fury Road action sequences.** Official secrets comes under the 'whistleblowing' genre whose stalwarts include movies like All the president's men and Network. There have also been a few in recent times like The Post and Spotlight. But what makes this stand out is the amount of time we spend on the protagonist's personal life. Not to take away anything from these movies, (they might even lessen if they try something like this) but it was important here that we devoted our focus into the character's personal struggles because only then would we know how hard the decisions that she made were and the things that were at stake for her when she chose this for herself. That for me elevated the movie to a whole new level.