Underground Julian Assange (Movie)

Underground Julian Assange 

Julian Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century. But before he was famous and long before WikiLeaks, before the internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is his story.

Alex Williams as the young Julian Assange gives a powerhouse performance of a young man focused and driven by his wanting to expose ‘the truth’ and not cause damage in the process. And he achieves his goal even with the dial-up internet of the time.

International Subversives

In 1989, known as ‘Mendax’, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the ‘International Subversives’. Using early home computers and defining themselves as ‘white hat hackers’ – those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security.

At the urging of the FBI, the Australian Federal Police set up a special task-force to catch them. It was a time when most Australian police had never seen a computer, let alone used one, so they had to figure out just where to begin. Police ingenuity and old-fashioned detective work are pitted against nimble, highly skilled young men in this new crime frontier. What follows is a tense and gripping game of cat and mouse through the electronic underground of Melbourne in Australia.

The ‘authorities’ are full of disdain and envy for this group of geniuses. They envy their knowledge of up and coming technology. Julian Assange laid the groundwork for the digital oversight that ‘the press’ has failed to utilise. They should have. After all, it’s their mission as the fourth estate to keep an eye on corruption in the State and Corporations.

This movie shows that Julian Assange is a 21st century hero! It will change your mind about his motives if you’ve previously thought of him in any other terms than the hero that he is.

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