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Title: Brexit (TV Movie 2019)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Benedict Cumberbatch | ... | Dominic Cummings | |
| Sarah Belcher | ... | Female Consultant | |
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Malcolm Freeman | ... | Male Consultant |
| Lucy Russell | ... | Elizabeth Denham | |
| Oliver Birch | ... | Policy Strategist 1 | |
| Ross Hatt | ... | Policy Strategist 2 | |
| Liz White | ... | Mary Wakefield | |
| Simon Paisley Day | ... | Douglas Carswell | |
| John Heffernan | ... | Matthew Elliott | |
| Lee Boardman | ... | Arron Banks | |
| Paul Ryan | ... | Nigel Farage | |
| Kate O'Flynn | ... | Victoria Woodcock | |
| Tim Steed | ... | Daniel Hannan | |
| Nicholas Day | ... | John Mills | |
| Tim McMullan | ... | Bernard Jenkin | |
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
... in that your social media data can not just be harvested to sell you hats and hamburgers, but sell you misinformation literally tailored to you for political campaigns as well.
This is the tale of the 2016 referendum on Brexit- the vote in the UK to leave the European Union. Specifically it is a portrait of one man, Dominic Cummings (Benedict Cumberbatch), the director of the "Leave" campaign, or the campaign to exit the EU. I wasn't sure why the side story of the Cummings marriage and pregnancy was included at first, but later it becomes clear that Cummings would have come across as a statistician/political version of House, M.D. if that humanizing story was not present.
Cummings enlists the help of a tiny Canadian IT company - Aggregate IQ - to do data mining of social media for the "Leave" campaign, and they come up with three million potential Brexit voters that the "Remain" campaign (campaign to remain in the EU) knows nothing about. Cummings' strategy involves tenets of Sun Tzu's "Art of War" , specifically forcing the "Remain" campaign to "fight in the darkness", or wherever the "Leave" campaign chose them to fight. Specifically Britain has an equal time policy when it comes to political messages. So the Remain campaign would have a Nobel prize winning economist explaining the downside to leaving the EU in complex terms, and then the Leave side would talk about millions of Turks possibly emigrating to the UK, forcing the Remain side to waste time on trying to debunk that message.
It is up the viewer as to whether this tale is humorous or frightening, I think it is a little bit of both. On the frightening side you have political campaigns becoming the equivalent of the evil presence in the 1982 film Poltergeist - it knows what scares you. On the humorous side you see the frustration of the Remain side as the Leave side will simply not play by the rules. And kudos to the guy playing Boris Johnson. He looked just like him.
I'm only knocking one point off this almost perfect film because it had quite a bit of stuff that the viewer was just assumed to know. For example it kept talking about "MPs". In the US that is "Military Police". In the UK it is "Members of Parliament". I should not have to search Wikipedia in order to completely understand a film, but overall that is a minor complaint.
Highly recommended,and this is NOT a piece of propaganda.