During the Spring Festival, I went to Java Island, Indonesia, and watched a piece of "Snowden" on the plane, which was a test of listening ability. There was nothing to do on the six-hour flight. However, this type of film adapted from real events has fresh content and is still visible. In addition, the news protagonist has a good appearance, and the old driver Oliver Stone directed the weather and people.
The temperament that Jonsef exudes in the film is also highly restored to the news protagonist. The IT man who was a little sluggish when he first entered the relationship shows forbearance, repression, and release in the face of facts that challenge his conscience. In particular, at the end of the film, Snowden himself appeared, and there was no sense of incongruity when switching between the two.
Those who are familiar with this news should know that this is 1984 in the present world, and the U.S. government exerts secret control over many countries around the world through the Internet: in the energy stations jointly built by the allies, the back door can be opened and stopped, which vividly interprets Churchill's "no eternity". The motto of "friends who have only eternal interests"; mass surveillance of the whole people: your cousin's second uncle's grandmother's nephew sent a text message to a friend "Bush is SB", and everything in your life is He was even exposed to the microscopes of the National Security Agency and the CIA.
The film is not a documentary, it is more about Snowden's personal life and psychological journey. Although there are descriptions about the technical means by which he copied the secret documents and released them to the world, it is not the point. We can see how shy he was when he first met his girlfriend, a little clumsy that belonged to a science and engineering man.
In a subsequent mission, his boss’s abuse of citizens’ privacy and unconscionable use of it shocked him. This was the first time he had doubts and struggles with the system. And because of the nature of his work, he couldn't tell his doubts to his girlfriend, only silence and repression, and seemingly paranoid using the reason of Russian hackers to stick to all the cameras at home. And his repression not only did not ease his mood, but also kept his girlfriend out of his heart, causing the two people who loved each other to be farther and farther apart. In the pre-breakup argument, Snowden's questioning of his girlfriend was more like a rant to himself, "Would you really give up your beautiful life of eating and sleeping and going out all the time? You think you'd really want a career? "On the other hand, after Snowden was exposed, his passport was cancelled, he lost his job, and he was stranded in Russia and could not go anywhere. So he was actually asking himself, can you? Give up such a "free" life?
When his girlfriend returned to his own home in the United States, Snowden quit his job at the NSA. Maybe he thought about leaving the environment that made him tangled and depressed. What if he lived an ordinary life and was invisibly watched? I just do my best to protect myself, I just don’t take the initiative to do those jobs that invade the privacy of ordinary people. . . . . . He returned to the United States to reunite with his girlfriend and worked for the NSA data outsourcing company.
However, changing the working environment didn't help. He still came into contact with things he didn't want to contact before, and found that the violations intensified. The system that was supposed to monitor Russia, China, and countries in the Middle East ended up processing a multiple of the amount of data in the U.S. mainland. He shared his findings with a few people who were close to him, and he couldn't believe it, but he was overwhelmed. At that time, his relationship with his girlfriend was already stable and he could start a family soon. But he still gave up, no matter how cruel the decision was for girls, because in the film Snowden made this decision without consulting his girlfriend at all, and he had prepared a lot in advance, and it can be said that the moment of implementation is approaching Tell your girlfriend to let her go home and hide.
Maybe it's because of the difference in perception between men and women! Regarding the incident, we can definitely watch another documentary "The Fourth Citizen", so when watching this film, I was more impressed by the relationship between Snowden and the people around him. I think his girlfriend must have loved him so much to get back together with him and to stand by his side when he made a "ruthless" decision, Snowden avoided Hong Kong afterwards, and then tried to transfer Being stranded in Russia on the way to South America, he avoided the public's attention, and when the media could not find the protagonist, he could only frantically surround his family and his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly I thought of a sentence from a recent well-reviewed film "Arrival": "War does not make heroes, only orphans and widows are left behind".
The final text of the film states that his girlfriend has now traveled to Russia to reunite with Snowden. I just hope that he will live up to this girl who loves him deeply, after all, he has sacrificed too much for him.
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