Health & Fitness
Review: 'The East' Offers Political Intrigue and Tension
An undercover agent finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group
Directed by Zal Batmanglij, The East stars Brit Marling as Sarah Ross, a former FBI agent who becomes an undercover operative for the private intelligence firm Hiller/Brood. Sarah’s latest assignment: infiltrate The East, an anarchist collective that targets multinational corporations and their corrupt CEOs.
Alexander Skarsgård and Ellen Page co-star as Benji and Lizzy, leaders of The East who use “jams” to expose pharmaceutical companies and energy conglomerates that destroy the planet.
As Sarah grows closer to the charismatic, convincing Benji, she begins to question the moral underpinnings of her undercover assignment, like Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in Scorsese’s The Departed, a snitch in deep cover for too long, gaining the trust and respect of those she plans to rat on.Read the full review at Geeks of Doom, an arts and entertainment blog that covers the latest in comics, movies, music, television, and pop culture paraphernalia.