Journalists are ballsy af.
Especially these foreign correspondent types. They have a natural instinct to point their camera and pen and notepad into the face of danger and present to the world an unvarnished truth.
And yet that respect for the accuracy of what the press reports, coupled with a consistently eroded funding base due to dwindling paper sales and terristial TV viewership seeping to the internet, has dampened the aura of journalistic integrity somewhat.
This grim yet inspiring true tale, goes a long way to remind us the importance of this role and the courage of those that step forward each and every day in the pursuit of truth.
The Correspondent is the story of Peter Greste, portrayed here by everyone’s favourite garden instrument solicitor Richard Roxborough, an Australian journalist working for Aljazeera, arrested by the Egyptian government on charges of terrorism.
This modern era Midnight Run is a start to finish run of Greste’s time inside, faced with a feeling of total isolation in the initial arrest where the wheels of diplomatic Bureaucracy turn especially slow, through to his solidarity across racial boundaries with his fellow journalists, those arrested and those on the outside who carry the flame for his release. Director Kriv Stenders uses a flash back motif of an earlier journalistic assignment as a way for Greste to question whether his current circumstance, which wildly unjust, may just be a karmic balance for sins of the past.
Journalists are ballsy af.
Especially these foreign correspondent types. They have a natural instinct to point their camera and pen and notepad into the face of danger and present to the world an unvarnished truth.
And yet that respect for the accuracy of what the press reports, coupled with a consistently eroded funding base due to dwindling paper sales and terristial TV viewership seeping to the internet, has dampened the aura of journalistic integrity somewhat.
This grim yet inspiring true tale, goes a long way to remind us the importance of this role and the courage of those that step forward each and every day in the pursuit of truth.
The Correspondent is the story of Peter Greste, portrayed here by everyone’s favourite garden instrument solicitor Richard Roxborough, an Australian journalist working for Aljazeera, arrested by the Egyptian government on charges of terrorism.
This modern era Midnight Run is a start to finish run of Greste’s time inside, faced with a feeling of total isolation in the initial arrest where the wheels of diplomatic Bureaucracy turn especially slow, through to his solidarity across racial boundaries with his fellow journalists, those arrested and those on the outside who carry the flame for his release. Director Kriv Stenders uses a flash back motif of an earlier journalistic assignment as a way for Greste to question whether his current circumstance, which wildly unjust, may just be a karmic balance for sins of the past.
