I was very curious about this incident. After reading Snowden and The Fourth Citizen, I was afraid of omissions, and I checked the relevant materials before I dared to write my afterthought.
1. The difference between "Snowden" and "The Fourth Citizen":
1.1 Narrative focus
The two are fundamentally different;
"Snowden" is an adaptation of a reality-themed film , which depicts Snowden's adulthood, work, and love life in a more artistic way, about a time span of 3-8 years. Being able to show a wider perspective is a richer emotional foreshadowing and easily accepted behavioral motivation, but the authenticity is slightly weaker ;
"The Fourth Citizen" records the preparations before the leak, the face-to-face communication between Snowden and reporters in the process, and the life that has been turned upside down after the active exposure of personal information in the form of a documentary . The time span is about 10 years before the incident. days to 1-2 years after the fact. The movie is basically composed of 80% small hotel room dialogue + 10% black and white subtitles + 5% empty footage + 5% post-event group images. The handheld camera often fails to focus and shakes. From the viewing experience, it is really like watching pirated CDs. Like, at least the pirated discs will have soundtracks. . . But if you pay attention to the cause and effect of the incident itself, this documentary should be the most perfect reflection of Snowden's own thoughts at the moment, even more than any other book.
It is recommended to watch "Snowden" first, to have a relatively comprehensive feeling. If you have the desire to learn more about the incident, you can watch "The Fourth Citizen" as a supplement to the information.
1.2 Behavioral motivation
"Snowden", in order to take care of the audience's viewing experience and make Snowden more full, chooses to take love as the narrative line, takes worrying about gains and losses as the entry point, and takes "beloved people being violated" as the direct motivation, and finally uses The name of Xiao Ai promotes the matter of "righteousness";
In "The Fourth Citizen", Snowden's explanation of his behavioral motives is mainly the result of thinking about "the pit and balance between public and private power". The original purpose of combating terrorism has been to conduct surveillance and monitoring of people who have no public safety threat without review and authorization, and to suppress competitors from other countries and gain political and economic advantages.
What amazes me is that when he faces
Snowden's display of a rare idealism and personal heroism in Citizen 4 (he strove to avoid the fact that his heroic actions might distract the crowd from events, but instead deepened his personal heroism) It seems a little too saintly to the average audience, and it becomes difficult to empathize with it, so the way in which Snowden is handled may easily resonate with emotion;
2. The consequences of Snowden's actions
In fact, from a rational point of view, as long as the resources available to human beings are still limited and the concept of the state exists, competition between states is obviously inevitable.
Referring to history, centralization (or centralization under the guise of democracy) obviously has greater policy continuity and capacity for national mobilization
to create a more competitive country
3. Is Snowden a hero?
Ignore the very simple and too idealistic, believe
If Snowden was thinking from the perspective of all mankind - a saint, but the truth is
From his standpoint, the last step could hurt his country's interests
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