I've always heard about the legal action taken towards The Pirate Bay but I've never seen the characters behind the website. Away From Keyboard shows their personalities shining, even if Peter Sunde is the only one who seems like a reasonable human being. With its trial setting, the film is an argument on the pros and cons of The Pirate Bay and fortunately it does look into the con side despite following the pioneers of the website. While I sit in the middle, it does seem like both sides are quite close minded without room to budge, hopefully a compromise will be made someday. It's an interesting film, even if it focuses on the trial too much, I wanted a bit of the history, a bit more scene setting. But it's slickly edited and shot, though they've saturated the image so much that it's really dark and moody. The atmosphere of conflict and revolution. It's a good documentary, albeit one that just scratches the surface. Like a magazine article brought to life.
7/10
7/10