blandness worth celebrating

Evie 2022-04-19 09:02:28

Directly at the center of the Prism Gate incident, the precious restoration of the perspective of the witnesses, less the special look and feel of the movie, and more of the factual significance of the documentary. Compared with other films that cater to the audience's values, "The Fourth Citizen" calmly threw the key clips of the incident to the audience's own taste, and the thrilling entanglement was slowly revealed by the reporter's camera. It's hard to believe that this is what the center of the vortex looks like. I'm fortunate that there are many independent individuals who are not afraid of power to speak up. The film I watched after "Snowden", I think the former is more watchable, but "The Fourth Citizen" can be successfully published and won awards, which is worth celebrating in itself!

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  • Donnell 2022-04-20 09:02:04

    Warming up for the new movie Snowdon. Shockingly brave and fantastic journalism.

  • Fiona 2022-03-30 09:01:05

    The importance of the event outweighs the technicality of the record. Part of the Hong Kong interview can be said to be "survival of the image". This is one of the things I admire the most about the director. As for Snowden's good looks, a group of sbs living in the wall suddenly shouted "protect your online privacy", and the secret protection between China and Russia and the protection war in Macau can be ignored. Because all these people can see are rumors and appearances. They don't understand the universal values ​​that the documentary promotes

Citizenfour quotes

  • TITLE CARD]: William Binney is asked to testify as an expert witness.

  • TITLE CARD]: Binney's testimony is interrupted when news breaks that the CIA has a double agent spying on the German NSA inquiry