The young actor’s jump from unravelling high-schooler to unravelling whistle-blower bewitches
, a film from New York-based writer-director Tina Satter about a young American woman improbably named Reality Winner, which leans into all those modes, but adds its own irresistible, pleasingly strange spin.
It is a Saturday in June, and Winner returns from work to find two FBI officers, R. Wallace Taylor and Justin C. Garrick in her driveway. Or, rather, they find her, and immediately start to record the interrogation.’s big talking point – apart from casting white-hot rising star Sweeney – is that it uses the real-life transcript between the FBI officers and Winner for its script.
Not that it matters, when the story is this gripping. Winner served in the US Air Force, making the most of her language skills – she is fluent in Arabic, Dari, Pashto, and a juddering American – as a linguist in Maryland. Later, Winner moved to Georgia and started a job at an agency, Pluribus International Corporation, which sold services to the National Security Agency. It was here that she happened on a classified documents about Russian interference in America’s 2016 election.
Except, of course, it didn’t all happen. Reality Winner does not look like a beloved actress on a zeitgeisty teen show. Real life is not adeptly film-directed, nor does it run to a tight hour and 23 minutes . Sotakes the best part of, uh, reality, and blends it with the best part of Hollywood. The two agents are note-perfect villains: smooth, kind-until-they’re-not, slippery as a sweaty brow.
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