I don't know what Snowden himself was like, but Joseph Gordon Levy's Snowden is definitely very different from Snowden Benden. Snowden is a genius both technically and professionally; his girlfriend is a bright and sexy blonde who was a former pole dancer; he released a single when he came to Russia; he even went to chat rooms to chat with a group of girls ...I guess there is definitely a bit of flamboyance in his character, which also leads to a psychological plot of his heroism, which is a bit different from the dull image of low-key and modest in the film.
Well, I think that the logic of the storyline of this film is likely to push the characters backwards from the consequentialism. In order to conform to the tension of the drama, from the positive part of the result, I find a material line along the character prototype and his experience, In order to support the development of the whole story, so, let's not get too connected with reality in this biographical film. From the perspective of the film, we need to think about what kind of person the director made Snowden become, and why, and this is the film The central idea to be expressed.
So what kind of person is Snowden in this film?
First of all, the hardest shell of this character is the technical genius. He must have super ability, which is also in line with the facts, and from the perspective of the plot, such a person is convincing. An ordinary person shouting slogans to protect personal information and protect human rights through his voice is a little pale, it must have A megaphone, and the megaphone that can infect people is his genius ability, and because of this he has a stable and higher income and quality of life than the average person, and because he abandoned all secret information monitoring to achieve his stalwart image .
Secondly, his principle is his biggest character shining point. He is patriotic, which is an important reason for him to stay in the NSA for a long time. He believes that his work is related to the fight against terrorism, the protection of national security, and the maintenance of world peace. And when he found out that his job was not actually like that, he found that a larger percentage of the information he monitored was monitoring ordinary people, he found that the information he was monitoring was used by some bastards to get promoted and rich, and he found that questioning and The accusers will be retaliated against, etc., which makes his final conviction collapse. His principle lies in his solid awareness of human rights. Everyone has the right to know and decide their own information, which is personal property and personal right.
The film satirizes the hypocrisy of the US government, the hypocrisy of packaging interests with "big picture" and "patriotism". And the existence of Snowden's character is used to tear the scissors of hypocrisy: Don't you say that everything, the monitoring of information is for this country? Then let the citizens of this country know all this and let them judge this behavior. From this point of view, this film is worth watching, it does give people a correct value, and also emphasizes the inviolability of personal information. One of the details in the film is that Snowden talks about the Nuremberg Principles, about the crime caused by ordinary work. The significance of the director here for "Snowden" to position himself as an ordinary worker is to confront the deceitful behavior of the US government and criticize this government's arrogance and despise ordinary citizens. Anyone has the right to judge anything in the country, don't take any "ordinary person" as a fool, this is looking down on who, right!
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