It immediately gained countless fans, and someone in China created the Snowden Global Conservation Association. If you haven't seen the interview videos or documentaries of Snowden himself, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Snowden is almost a cute geek image, but after watching this film, you will find that Snowden is completely inconsistent. All of our wishful thinking about geek stereotypes—high IQ, but procrastination, lack of love, poor daily communication skills, etc. The real Snowden in "The Fourth Citizen" is a geek who not only has a high IQ of over 140, but is also calm in the face of things. His language is very logical, and at the same time he has a super high taste in dressing, almost every piece of clothing is clean and in line with his gentle temperament (this is rare for a person with only a high school degree, which also shows that Sven has nothing to do with education), so that some netizens even integrated all Snowden's dressing records and named "Snowden teaches you how to dress fashionably", know how to use hairspray to care for hairstyles, and more importantly, there are more than ordinary people conscience. It is very difficult for anyone in this world to have everything, such as a stable love, a stable job, and an annual salary of $200,000, to be like Snowden as the most powerful person in the world who stands up to resist The deep throat, or whistle, of the US government blower. In China, "support or not" has become a problem now. How can there be such a person who gives up everything he owns for the privacy and freedom of the people? It is in this sense that the author feels that this film is very educational and even philosophical. Socrates, a philosopher in ancient Greece, once put forward a view that virtue is knowledge. His original intention is that the reason why human beings live an unethical life is because they do not know what is true, good and beautiful. If human beings know what If it is true, good, and beautiful, he will definitely become such a person, so Socrates spent his whole life in the square of Greece, constantly promoting mankind's pursuit of knowledge and helping mankind understand what beauty is. However, this view of his was revised by his student Aristotle, who proposed the weakness of human will. He said that human beings will not become virtuous people just because they know what virtue is, because human beings will sometimes cause him to do the opposite. When I was teaching and educating people, I had always admired Aristotle's revised view. After reading "The Fourth Citizen", I suddenly realized that the arguments of Socrates and Aristotle were aimed at two groups of people. , Socrates speaks of sages like himself with a super conscience, while Aristotle speaks of laity like me. Fortunately, the appearance of Snowden made the author believe once again that there are some people in this world who will give up themselves for the benefit of others. Such people really exist. So, this is probably why, even though the intelligence agencies of various countries agree that Snowden is a traitor, most people think that Snowden is a hero. The world still needs some real people to convince us that the world is getting better.
At the end of the film, Lindsay Mills, Snowden's long-term girlfriend, appeared on the scene. The two were cooking with a dim light in a hut in a Russian field. Lindsay's decision surprised many people in the world at that time. People's love is called "the most romantic exile in the world". Probably only true love will make me willing to be with you for the rest of my life, no matter what kind of danger you are in.
More than three years have passed since the incident, and the US prosecution of Snowden is still ongoing. According to Snowden, as long as the system remains unchanged, this will not be a fair judgment (because according to the US "Counter Espionage Act" (the stipulations of the United States, where state secrets are involved, there can be no public trial, no jury, or even self-defense by the defendant). The current preliminary agreement between the US government and Snowden is only to ensure that he will not be held after he returns to China.” torture" him. As Snowden himself said, he could be thrown into prison, or even in Guantanamo for a lifetime, but he hopes that the incident itself will inspire more whistleblowers to defend the privacy and freedom of citizens in the age of technology.
The author once again appeals that, compared to various commercial films with high investment and luxurious scenes, the author recommends such a moving and enlightening documentary, which makes us at least full of real touches on the world.
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