Unless you're frustrated following the ups and downs - well, mostly Downs - Julian Assange's life over the last 15 years, you have to wait for the last half hour of Eugene Jarecki's new documentary, Six billion dollars manunderstand the meaning of its title.

By then, the founder of WikiLeaks had been stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for more than six years, where he faced impending arrest by British authorities. At that time, we learned about the first Trump administration offered through the International Monetary Fund, lending $6.5 billion from the Ecuadorian government if they agree to kick Assange out. The move is not shocking, especially from traders like Trump, which shows how much the U.S. authorities are willing to pay so they can connect with one of the people they want most.

Most of Jarecki's packed and informative two-hour features premiered as a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival, highlighting the decade-long legal roller coaster ride of Assange and his team of loyal lawyers. The movie may be a bit repetitive in all the scenes of the Embassy, ​​which is not the most film location. But we do grasp the growth of the sense of isolation and paranoid Assange over the years. Technically, he was not in jail, but his life was arrested.

The first half Six billion dollars man Before this, we are given some backstory that leads to it, which shows how Assange went from an unknown Australian hacker to a global free journalism hero to the number one enemy, especially the U.S. government.

His small startup Wikileaks was founded in 2006, and the following year Assange released a entitled Mortgage murderrevealing the leaked footage of the U.S. Marine Corps massacre of Iraqi civilians. (Jarecki includes a long excerpt, now as disturbing as it was then.) In the years that followed, the site ditched thousands of edited documents online, including military field logs, diplomatic communications, and many nasty emails among members of the Democratic State Council.

It was a promising moment for the Internet, when online journalism could shake the world order. "would you rather no Know? "A bearded Edward Snowden explained (presumably Moscow), referring to all the information provided by Assange for free, but the period would be short-lived. The bar, with no choice but to enjoy political asylum in the only place he could get.

Jarecki is no stranger to the abuse of American power, especially in early functions Henry Kissinger's Trial and Why do we fight From the Vietnam War to the Iraq War, the focus is on U.S. foreign policy. In the opening of his new document, he did a great job of setting the importance of Assange’s work, which brought a lot of awkward people (not to mention criminalizing) to do dirty laundry under Obama and Trump’s administrations, neither of whom were as good as here.

It took enough time to fill the entire series in those early Wikileaks eras, requiring Jarecki and his team of four editors to condense a lot of material until they brought them the core, which was Assange's legal hell decade in England.

The story then appeared with two co-stars: the first was human rights lawyer and fellow Australian Jennifer Robinson, who defended Assange when he first received an international arrest warrant in 2010, and then held on with him until the pain ended. The other is WikiLeaks' lawyer and advocate Stella Assange, who fell in love with the founder and gave birth to his first child when the embassy lockdown was set. For all the dark clouds of that period, a silver lining was that Assange's legal dilemma began with a rape investigation that ended up in Sweden - who managed to find his confidant.

It's also obvious (in one scene, Mia's "paper plane" throws the actual paper machine away from the windows with Assange), which is filmmaking for filmmaking) Six billion dollars man People who may be more traditional than those involved, their appearance changes drastically as the years of purgatory procrastination.

But if there are so many more styles in Jarecki's movies than they do, there are so many telling the truth. As Naomi Klein said at the end of the film, in a simple statement, summarizing what WikiLeaks represented at the time of creation, and it still means in our rampant age of misinformation: “The truth matters.”