Reality begins in a dimly lit office, flat screen televisions adorning the walls as Fox News plays footage of former FBI director James Comey while reporting on his firing by Donald Trump. Later, Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney) will cite the incessant drone of Fox News as one of the reasons for her sending classified documents about Russian interference in the 2016 election to The Intercept. It's a direct quote, as is the entire script. Based on the play Is This A Room by Tina Satter, who also directs in her feature debut, Reality is a chilling and clinical look at the surveillance state and a fraught time for the United States as a whole, with a transformative performance from Sweeney as the title whistleblower.
Reality takes place in real time over the course of 83 minutes and the film makes it immediately clear that it is drawing from the transcript of conversations between Reality Winner and FBI Agents R. Wallace Taylor (a stoic Marchant Davis) and Justin C. Garrick (an unsettling Josh Hamilton). Realty rarely deviates from its set course. Instead, it lingers with Reality in front of her Augusta, Georgia home before it follows her into an unfurnished white room where she stands against a wall while she is interrogated. There are brief asides — Reality's life in the office is shown and Satter also interjects with images from the real Reality's Instagram profile to corroborate some of the things she says.
Other than these interjections, Reality is stone-cold in its...
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