Underground - The Julian Assange Story - Sunday telemovie.

Alex Williams portrays Julian Assange in Underground, The Julian Assange Story. Picture: Channel Ten Source: news.com.au

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• by: By Andrew Banks and Zoe Nauman

 UNDERGROUND: The Julian Assange Story has premiered on Australian screens and already it is creating quite a buzz.

The Ten telemovie focuses on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's first forays into the world of hacking and how he graduated to gaining illegal access to US military computers.

Newcomer Alex Williams, who bears a striking resemblance to Assange (pictured) whom he portrays, shines in Robert Connolly's film that won critical acclaim at the Toronto Film Festival. It begins in Emerald, Victoria, and puts into context Assange's disruptive family upbringing - his mother Christine (Rachel Griffiths) spent his childhood evading her ex-husband, who had links to the cult, The Family.

Young Assange's exploits as Mendax soon draw the attention of the police, and Detective Ken Roberts (Anthony LaPaglia) is put on the case to track his cyber criminal activities, and to start with he doesn't even have a computer. A fascinating insight into what shaped the man who is now known world wide.

English: Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg Deutsch: Julian Assange und Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I enjoyed the show myself although I felt it was a little biased in its delivery.  It showed Assange in a poor light from a few perspectives.  It showed him as a non attentive father, an unavailable man for his little family.  It showed them as thieves.  Showed they did this intent.  I thoroughly enjoyed the entire show despite these obvious slants to the writing of the script and how it played out in a short telly movie length show.  I would watch it again actually, I thought it was pretty good.  I think I am in love with the young Julian Assange as much as I am with the one now.  Such an innocent gangsta life and all from behind a keyboard.  

The link to the infamous cult "The Family"  here in Australia was an interesting twist to the script.  Some information contained there that not a lot would have known before hand to watching the film.   I give it five stars really.