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First Image of Sydney Sweeney as Real-Life U.S. Whistleblower Reality Winner in ‘Reality’


First Image of Sydney Sweeney as Real-Life U.S. Whistleblower Reality Winner in ‘Reality’



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22 Comments

  • MarvelsGrantMan136

    It premieres at the Berlin Film Festival this month:

    >Opening with the Saturday afternoon in June 2017 when 25-year-old Winner was confronted at her Georgia home by the FBI, the film follows the cryptic conversation that took place as the young woman’s life begins to unravel.

    >The film tracks one woman’s experience of the State at work. As more details of Reality’s life are revealed and more armed men arrive, a complex portrait emerges of an American millennial, yoga teacher, and veteran under siege.

  • ithinkther41am

    TIL of Reality Winner. Also the fact that there is ANOTHER movie about her coming out called *Winner*, directed by Susanna Fogel and starring Emilia Jones.

  • GoddammitCricket

    Her name is Reality Winner and she has two movies coming out based on her – one is named “Reality” and the other is named “Winner”. Lmao

  • EndlessMorfeus

    I just googled it, the woman’s actual name is Reality Leigh Winner. This title would be easier if her name was Samantha or whatever.

  • SuperTurboFrog

    Reality Winner looks like Amy Schumer but they get Sydney Sweeney to play her. I swear if this project gets an R for nudity I’m going to die laughing.

  • A7omicDog

    There’s a difference between “whistleblowing to expose corruption” and “giving up government secrets to empower our enemies because you hate your country”.

  • DriveThroughLane

    She didn’t actually ‘blow the whistle’ on anything. Whistleblowing implies exposing misconduct that’s being covered up by your ‘own team’. Reality Winner exposed intelligence about what kind of passive hacking operations Russians were up to, which didn’t tell the public any useful information, didn’t expose anyone to consequences, and let the Russians know that *we knew* about their cyberops, giving them a tactical edge.

    Its like if someone leaked top secret intelligence with our satellite images of Russian military deployments. Then the Russians would know the extent of our intelligence capabilities, without the public actually gaining anything by knowing those operations.

    There’s a reason “need to know” is a term and a reason why Reality Winner was convicted and deserved her prison time. She wasn’t a whistleblower, unlike Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who actually exposed misconduct by *our* government, who were trying to cover it up.

  • prius4lyf

    Ugh. I actually worked with Reality. She was such a fucking blowhard. I cannot believe she has a movie now based on her life played by Sydney fucking Sweeney. Jfc.

  • aspbergerinparadise

    Watched Euphoria recently and just finished S1 of White Lotus. Sydney Sweeney only has 4 facial expressions:

    – the expression in the OP – a mixture of confusion and concern
    – condescension
    – a perky, flirtatious attentiveness
    – sobbing

  • RepulsiveImplement49

    How exactly was what she did “whistleblowing”? (It’s a rhetorical question, because it wasn’t whistleblowing.)

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