Kill the Messenger (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kill the Messenger |
| Original title | Kill the Messenger |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Cuesta |
| script | Peter Landesman |
| production |
Pamela Abdy Naomi Despres Jeremy Renner Scott Stuber |
| music | Nathan Johnson |
| camera | Sean Bobbitt |
| cut | Brian A. Kates |
| occupation | |
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Kill the Messenger is a 2014 American fiction film directed by Michael Cuesta . The film is based on true facts from a non-fiction book by Nick Schou and deals with the story of investigative journalist Gary Webb .
The film premiered on September 28, 2014 at the Starz Denver Film Festival. The German theatrical release was September 10, 2015.
action
In 1996, while researching an article, journalist Gary Webb discovered links between the US CIA and organized drug trafficking . In his series of articles, Dark Alliance , he reveals, backed by numerous documents and testimony, that the Nicaraguan Contra rebels , with the knowledge and support of the CIA, smuggled cocaine into the USA on a large scale in the 1980s to finance their guerrilla war against the Sandinista . In 1982 the US Congress passed the Boland Amendments , which legally prohibited the US government from providing any financial or other support for the Contras, but the CIA, with funding from the proceeds of drug trafficking, led a proxy war with the support of the US Air Force to the weapons- , Drug and money transport.
The series met with a great response and aroused great outrage, especially in the black community. As a result of a character assassination campaign by major US newspapers, however, Webb loses his job and later never regains his professional footing. In 2004 he was found shot dead. Although he died from two shots in the back of the head, his death is classified as a suicide.
criticism
The film received positive to mixed reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film was rated positively by 77% of the critics, based on 95 reviews with an average rating of 6.8 points.
The critic of the Süddeutsche Zeitung saw a film "which cleverly tells an episode of contemporary history" and develops "speed" in the process.
Michael Meyns from programmkino.de found the film to be "an old-fashioned, intelligent and committed journalism thriller in the best sense of the word", the main character of which was "rousingly embodied" by Jeremy Renner.
According to the film's starts , the film is "an ambitiously designed, but mixed, implemented mixture of political thriller and biopic, which is enhanced by great supporting actors".
The taz saw the film's “focus on Webb's private life” as its great weakness, which otherwise “primarily impresses as a journalistic procedural”.
Web links
- Kill the Messenger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Kill the Messenger . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 925 K).
- ↑ Amendments For HR2968. Library of Congress, 1982, accessed September 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Kill the Messenger at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ^ Kill the Messenger. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 7, 2015, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
- ^ Film review of Kill the Messenger at programmkino.de, accessed on September 7, 2015
- ^ The Filmstarts review of Kill the Messenger at filmstarts.de, accessed on September 7, 2015
- ↑ Check the story , in the taz of September 9, 2015