The East. Sarah (Brit Marling) works for a private intelligence firm. An anarchist terrorist group is targeting CEOs of corporations that are destroying the environment, putting out defective products, etc. Sarah is sent in to infiltrate the group. This group seems like more of a nuisance than anything else. At the beginning of the movie, you see them going into the house of a major oil company's CEO. They pour oil through the air vents, filling the house up. Admittedly, a more vicious group than the Los Angeles Bling Ring that targeted movie stars, but not a group that might target someone for bodily harm.
As soon as Sarah finds her way in, the group takes a turn for the worse. They get themselves into a house party, hosted by the executive of a pharmaceutical corporation. This corporation has an antibiotic that has some very negative consequences for a small percentage of the population. They pour the antibiotic into the champagne glasses. One of the executives later suffers the side effects of this antibiotic.
Sarah finds herself drawn into the beliefs of the group, but can't condone the actions of the group.
In some ways, this is perhaps an anarchist's wet dream type of movie. A few years back, I remember reading about how SUVs were being vandalized at a dealership. This movie takes it so much further. The acting is low-key, but you feel the fervor that the characters have towards their cause. In some ways, you sympathize with their cause, but like Sarah you wish they'd go about it in a different manner.
This is definitely a movie that is worth your time.
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