Meanwhile, one of the agents is asking about her CrossFit routine and her life as a single person in Augusta. She’s worried about the perishables, her cat escaping through the open door and her dog scaring people. The agents tell her they have a search warrant for her home and her car and promptly tape off her modest yard with “crime scene” ribbon, take her phone and force her to stay outside as they search. Her life has been put on pause and there’s nothing she can do about it. She has a cat in the house and a dog, a rescue who doesn’t like men.
SYDNEY SWEENEY FULL
Reality (Sweeney) has come home with a car full of groceries. Though it takes some time for Agent Taylor (Marchánt Davis) and Agent Garrick (Josh Hamilton) to get to the real questions, the real reason why they’re there, the small stresses and indignities start to build. There is a dread to the whole endeavor from the first shot, even if you don’t remember how this story played out in the news. The smallness of the room starts to feel suffocating, especially as the questions get more specific and accusatory. But the point is that Satter has, in adapting “Reality” for the screen, turned limitations into opportunities.
SYDNEY SWEENEY MOVIE
It’s easy and lazy to ding a movie for being too much like a play, as though there is some bright line of demarcation between the formats aside from how audiences see them. The show, called “Is This a Room,” was acclaimed in its off-Broadway run and the film version, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and is currently streaming on Max, is her directorial debut. The film comes from Tina Satter, a noted playwright who first conceived of this idea for the stage. The film starts as she pulls up into her driveway, an agent knocks on her car window and starts the recording on his handheld device. The next month, the FBI was at her door to interrogate her. One day in May 2017, she printed a classified report, tucked it into her pantyhose, walked out of the office and mailed it to an online news outlet.
It’s based on the actual FBI interrogation of the unbelievably named Reality Winner, a former Air Force translator who worked as a contractor at a National Security Agency office in Augusta, Georgia. And it’s one of the most tense and exciting films of the year. The dialogue has all the ums and ahs, botched sentences and awkward small talk one might expect from actual human beings, not slickly intelligent Aaron Sorkin creations. Its script is as minimalistic - lifted directly from the transcript of one long conversation between two FBI agents and a young woman they suspect has leaked classified documents. There are no chairs or rugs, just a stark and ugly room in a nondescript rental property in a downtrodden neighborhood.
“Reality,” a new movie starring Sydney Sweeney, is largely set in one empty room.
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