2015 film directed by Sarah Gavron

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Francis Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

2006 film by Kevin Macdonald

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

作为国内公共领域最重要的声音之一，刘瑜的文字向来拥趸众多，之前的作品更多关注美国民主，与中国相关度不高。而本书更多关注东亚、中东欧、南美洲以及非洲国家的政治与民主化，比如英国、俄罗斯、委内瑞拉、赞比亚等，这些国家的民主化进程参差不齐，而很多情况与现今中国有较强的可比性，这无疑让这本书更生动，更接地气。
喜欢刘瑜文字的人，在本书中仍然可以找到惊喜，她是幽默的：“所谓民主，就是选一个人上去挨骂。”她还是犀利的：“别说什么‘关了灯都一样’，21世纪了，为什么总要关着灯呢。”书中内容，包括、国际时政、政治书评影评以及一些个体化思考的杂论，更为多样化，阅读上带有跳跃感，但并不会有断裂之感，相反，用刘瑜自己的话说：“我相信这些文章集结在一起所传递的信息，相比它们零散的存在，其重量和清晰度是不一样的，而这些信息在今天的中国值得被反复和清晰地传递。”
一个更好的社会，更好的制度的降临并不是“自动”的，观念的变化是必要环节，而本书最终要达到的目的，就是“将过于霸道的声音拧小，将被屏蔽的声音放大，将司空见惯的思维方式打上一个问号，将盒子里的光释放”，“告诉他人他们不知道自己知道的观念”。

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.