"Closed Circuit," the story of a high-profile terrorist bomber case, draws on the legacy of 1970s political thrillers like "The Parallax View" and "Three Days of a Condor" to create a film that feels very much of the moment.
The political and social events that fed paranoia about bureaucratic malfeasance in that decade — the Pentagon Papers and Vietnam — have changed, giving way to things like Wikileaks or Edward Snowden. Yet the anxiety remains, and gives the low-budget thriller opening Wednesday a weightiness beyond its conventional story of two lawyers caught in a vast government conspiracy.
"We worked with Julian Assange, we planted Snowden, he’s in our holding cell in Russia right now," Eric Bana joked to TheWrap.