| It all makes for a disturbing and at time shocking and uncomfortable viewing experience, with only one logical conclusion: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman MBS will stop at nothing in his quest for power and correlating need to crush any and all dissent, not even a cold blooded murder of another Saudi citizen, in a Saudi Consulate no less | But in the end "The Dissenter" wins it by a nose or two, on the account of the deeper research that went into the making of this |
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| "The Dissident" premiered with immediate acclaim at this year's Sundance Film Festival back in January, yea in what feels is now a different pre-COVID-19 decade altogether, Given Fogel's stellar track record, you'd think that distributors would be in a bidding war for this film, but the opposite happened: all major platforms and outlets Netflix, which had distributed "Icarus", Amazon, Neon, Fox Searchlight, etc | Last but not least, the Turkish Prosecutor and police also pipe in |
Omar had befriended Khashoggi, who had warned him "This kind of work might get you killed.
15| For two years, I've been fighting for transparency and accountability for those responsible | Along the way Fogel explains how the Saudi hacking technology works, and what to connection is with Jeff Bazos |
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| As the movie opens, it is "Montreal, Quebec, January 20, 2019, three months after the murder of Khashoggi", where we get to know Omar, a Saudi national and activist who now lives in exile, as he tells about the dangers he is facing | We are closer than ever to getting |
| This is huge: Incoming DNI, Avril Haines, just committed to releasing an unclassified report on the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi | The early evening theatrical screening where I saw this at the day after Christmas was attended poorly exactly 3 people, including myself |
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| Here he takes a new look at what really happened inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, and he unearths a number of shocking new evidence including the transcript of an audio tape of the murder | couldn't run away fast enough from this film, in an obvious sign that they didn't want the wrath of the Saudi Government for releasing this film |
At this point we are less than 10 min.
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