Film No 64 (2019) July 13th. 12:10 PM LUNA PALACE Leederville.
Luna Revelation film Festival Perth Western Australia July 4th - 17th.
"I'm not the person people think I am". (Chelsea makes a profound statement to camera as she comes to terms with the hysteria stemming from her international notoriety).
A somewhat informative fly-on-the-wall doco which, while disjointed, gives a relatively insightful sense of the vulnerable person that is Chelsea Manning, the convicted traitor who leaked over 75,000 top secret documents to Wikileaks in 2010. Whether you agree with what Manning did is unimportant here. The theme of Tim Hawkin's debut feature documentary is less to do with the mechanics and effects of Manning's actions and more the naivety, resilience and ultimately the vulnerability of a person who genuinely had no idea of the repercussions of her actions. Understandably the criticisms leveled at XY relate to the superficiality of detail in its content. And while the often used drone vision of journalists and civilians shot and killed in Iraq is used, there is little expansion of the machinations and effects of this. If you're keen to learn more about a person most people have had some opinion of, then catch XY Chelsea to verify or change that view. You might be surprised. 8GUMS.
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