| From Academy Award-Winning director Bryan Fogel ICARUS , The Dissident is a critically acclaimed edge-of-your-seat, adrenaline-filled thriller that plays out at the highest levels of power, exposing the labyrinth of deceit behind the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul | 39 people found this helpful Although I found the beginning confusing, with all the bouncing around between Omar Abdulaziz and Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi's fiancee, as the film continues the genius of the style comes to the fore |
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| It's a shocking documentary that reveals so much of what we miss in these garbage news cycles we have in today's journalism | Rest in peace Jamal Khashoggi |
But here Bezos was also a victim, and hopefully Amazon can do more to help get the word out about this important and very well-done film.
| 32 people found this helpful | The movie explains how Omar Abdulaziz's phone was hacked, enabling the Saudi regime to discover his connections with Khashoggi and how effective their work together was, and, it seems, the decision to assassinate Khashoggi |
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| The tactics the crowned Prince of Saudi Arabia uses to squelch free speech is the same tactics big tech is using against us today |
The very thing Jamal Khashoggi was fighting for freedom of speech is the very thing Twitter, Amazon, Facebook and big tech are violating right now.
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