Citizenfour Comments

  • Blaise 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    The calm and restraint touched me too deeply. It was really great. If I hadn't watched it in a small art cinema with only five people, I would stand up and applaud for half an hour. Many shots made me forget that this is a documentary. I have seen too many reports and interviews of Snowden, and the portrayal of him in the details of this film has seen a side that people have never...

  • Eldridge 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    Basically it was the beginning and end of the Prism Gate incident. The director took a camera to record Edward Snowden’s experience in Hong Kong during that time. It happened in sync with history, and was witnessing everything at all times. For this kind of incident, it’s still on the scene. It feels very rare. Starting with the surveillance scandal of the US National Security Agency, it showed a group portrait in which all parties were involved. In the end, you finally understand why I blocked...

  • Kiarra 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    Shocked. Maybe the technique is not perfect, but after reading it, it will make you feel uncomfortable for a long time, thinking about a lot of issues about public rights and privacy, as well as many moral gray areas and political factors. In any case, it is also a kind of freedom to allow this kind of film to be shown publicly. I can't even think about it in the Great Heavenly Dynasty. Get this year's...

  • Isac 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    Snowden is so handsome, who cares what else the film says. truth....

  • Haley 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    When George Orwell wrote "Nineteen Eighty Four", he must have never thought that Big Brother would become a reality in his own country. What is the pursuit of power? There is always more power. For us, it feels like watching the fire from the other side, because we are used to control. As a documentary, too shallow! Snowden is...

  • Cassandre 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    The documentary became a...

  • Maybell 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    On the high value of Snowden's...

Extended Reading
  • Brandt 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    Fourth citizen

    These two works about Snowden’s exposing the 稜鏡 project; "Citizenfour" (Citizenfour) and "Snowden" (Snowden), one directed by Laura Poitras The other is a feature film by Oliver Stone, who has always preferred political issues. It was released in Taiwan’s "Fourth Citizen" one year earlier. Friends...

  • Harrison 2021-12-27 08:01:47

    Thoughts

    I have never thought about privacy from this perspective. I grew up in China, was walled, supervised, articles were deleted, and content was reviewed. After getting used to it, the absence of privacy does not seem to bother me. But the speech at the beginning of the documentary really scared me....

Citizenfour quotes

  • TITLE CARD]: A month later I start recieving anonymous encrypted emails.

  • TITLE CARD]: The NSA has built the world's largest repository for intercepted communications in Bluffdale Utah. I started filming the site in 2011 when construction began.