Snowden's Freedom

Nico 2021-11-23 08:01:08

The film takes Snowden’s exposure of the Prism Gate in Hong Kong as a breakthrough, and uses flashbacks and penetrating techniques to tell Snowden’s experience in military, love, and intelligence work, goals, and how to show Snowden’s walk in a reasonable and credible manner. The mental journey of the whistleblower. The director continued to jump back and forth between Snowden’s revelations to reporters and Snowden’s memories through interspersed narratives, letting Snowden’s revelations and hiding stories in Hong Kong as clues, connecting the content that needs to be narrated, and enriching the film. The content also ensures the integrity of the story. The film tries to restore the real programming process, including a series of Bash commands that Snowden wrote in the CIA training school are true, and it restores the technology and hacker culture to be very real. Although Stone heroic Snowden in the film, Snowden is right: no matter who the president is, technology companies must protect user privacy. At the end of the film, a real man Snowden appeared, facing the camera, he said: "My greatest freedom is not to worry about what will happen tomorrow. I am very happy with what I have done today."

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Extended Reading
  • Pietro 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    The release time in France is just a few days after the general election. The French snickered when watching it. Fortunately, no one chose Trump or Hillary who installed a server in his home.

  • Nels 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    It's not exciting, the drama is like a documentary, showing the history of Snowden at length, and making the role played by Jon Joseph flat and dull. The love with his girlfriend took up too much space, and the part of the evacuation from the hotel at the end began to improve.

Snowden quotes

  • Catfish: In Vegas, looking at Afghanistan. We all knew that it was a kid. Poof. He's gone. But same village, two, three days later. We see the funeral party. We knew it was a kid that they were burying. Moms and dads wailing. And then the order comes down. Hit 'em. Poof. And they are gone in a cloud of dust.

  • Edward Snowden: You ever hear about the Nuremberg trials, Trev? They weren't that long ago. Yeah, well, the big shots were the first trial, but then the next trial were just the judges, and lawyers, and policemen, and guards, and ordinary people just doing their jobs, following orders. That's where we got the Nuremberg principles, which then the UN made into international law, just in case ordinary jobs become criminal again.