The Report and the paperwork thriller

A paperwork thriller. A chit-chat drama. The Report, the true story of the US Senate intelligence officer who investigated the CIA's torture of detainees after 9/11, uses dialogue - lots and lots of dialogue - to tell a slow-burning story of an instution reaching far beyond its limits. In this episode of The Bigger Picture Hen, Anna and Pete describe how watching the film is more akin to listening to long-form narrative podcast than going to the cinema, why the film remains a thrill despite its slow pace and how - bizarrely - scenes of state-sanctioned torture have become a trope unto themselves. The Bigger Picture, presented by the BFI, is ... BFI Digital editor Henry Barnes Anna Bogutskaya and producer Peter Sale. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Report and the paperwork thriller is an episode from British Film Institute by British Film Institute.

This episode is 29:49 long.

This episode was published on Nov 14, 2019.

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