The HBO docudrama Reality, starring Sydney Sweeney as an NSA whistleblower, is a must-see movie

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Sydney Sweeney stars as NSA whistleblower Reality Winner in the HBO movie Reality.

about Reality Winner. Played here with impressive chops by Sydney Sweeney, Winner is an ex-NSA translator who was arrested in 2017 at age 25 and imprisoned for leaking a classified document .

Making the movie’s timing particularly noteworthy is the fact that, while the Trump administration charged Winner under the Espionage Act, Trump himself now finds himself staring down the barrel of potential charges related to classified documents found to have been improperly handled at his Mar-a-Lago residence., portraying the young woman as increasingly sinking under the weight of a grave secret and looking exceedingly small in relation to the FBI agents who interrogated her.

My favorite thing about the movie, though, is its fidelity to what happened to her via its use of Winner’s interrogation transcript, verbatim, as the basis of the movie’s dialogue. Josh Hamilton and Marchánt Davis play the FBI agents who interrogate her with menace and perspicacity. They help to bring a sense of claustrophobia to the proceedings inThat is to say: There’s not a lot that “happens” in this movie, beyond the characters talking to each other. But the actors excel so much at saying a lot by not always saying what they really mean, that you can’t bring yourself to look away even if you wanted to.

“What I did when I broke the law was a political act at a very politically charged time,” Winner, now in her 30s,

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