Able Danger: The Movie
July 2, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »
Netflix describes this movie as:
Radical left-wing bookstore owner Tom Flynn (Adam Nee) finds himself in the fight of his life when his suspicions surrounding the events of Sept. 11 land him on the radar of a group of nefarious conspirators. When he crosses paths with a mysterious woman who claims to be in possession of evidence implicating the U.S. government, Tom soon realizes that exposing the truth to the world at large may cost him his life.
Sounds cool enough. I had no idea that it’s actually the Sander Hicks story – publisher of my first novel (now this). The left-wing bookstore is Vox Pop, and the book the character writes is Sander’s own:
Vox Pop:
Director says,
Once again, the movie is fiction. The Able Danger story line is right out of a Dashiell Hammett novel. But the Vox Pop Cafe/Bookstore is real. The Big Wedding is a real book. The idea was to make a hero out of the man I initially considered a cook, to place his maverick investigative journalism into the context of a Sam Spade adventure. He is the modern day Don Quixote taking on windmill-dragon of our collective understanding of truth as determined by the corporate oligarchies that control mainstream media. If there was a Vox Pop in every community, I think things would be a bit different ’round here.
Crazy strange and entertaining. Better directed than written I thought. Actually really well-directed. Bafflingly complicated at times, but noir’s supposed to be, and conspiracy theories get convoluted. What’s also strange is (spoiler warning, barely) that this is sort of the plot of The American Book Part II – guy writes a book, gets involved in conspiracies. And I’m connected to Sander in some way. Almost makes me feel like part of a conspiracy.
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