Emilia Jones wearing an employee badge walking up the stairs as Reality Winner with American flags in the background in Winner
Last year saw the release of Reality, Tina Satter’s excellent look at the arrest of Reality Winner—which utilized the FBI’s interrogation transcript to tell the story of Winner’s questioning about whether she leaked a classified document. Reality was a tense film, with a great performance by Sydney Sweeney, about an Air Force veteran who felt that Americans needed to know the truth about their country and how much it cost her in the long run.
While Reality focused on one specific period of Winner’s life, Winner goes much further back, showing her interest in learning new languages at a young age, her period in the Air Force, her relationships, and her eventual work as an NSA contractor.
Fogel and Howley also include a useless and exhausting narration that winks at the audience and attempts to keep this story lighthearted. However, the jokes are weak—bordering on, “Well, THAT just happened!” levels of depth—and do nothing but tell us things that we can easily see on our own.
Winner also at least makes the post-arrest details interesting, as we see how much of an impact it had on Winner’s family, and the lack of an impact it had on the rest of the world. For such a major choice to be made, the letdown of the reaction it actually gets is a tragedy in and of itself, which makes this post-script arguably the most effective part of the entire film.
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