Let me state in advance that I watched this movie in a movie theater.
In this era when high-definition picture quality is pursued, and even TV shows need to be high-definition, I found a very strange problem when I first watched this movie. His photography machine or lens usage did not reach the level of ordinary screen projection movies. It looked like a low-definition movie more than ten years ago, which caused me to sit down for more than two hours and wonder why the director wanted to do this, was the crew too short of money, or what purpose? At the end, I realized that the director had ulterior motives.
Snowden is a member of the US Central Intelligence Agency. He holds countless national secrets and shoulders the belief in defending his country. Because he is dissatisfied with the uncontrolled network surveillance of the US government and condemned by his conscience, he fled to Hong Kong with the secret and found it. The British media "Guardian" released the news. The low-quality images cleverly reflect that the shooting time is very urgent, and the content of the shooting involves state secrets, and the shooting is subject to many restrictions. However, in order to publish this shocking truth, the filming team must complete it as soon as possible, which also echoes the Snowden incident. The U.S. and the media were caught off guard and the reports were heavily restricted. Like a hot potato, it is an unusually bold and innovative film technique.
I feel that the screenwriter is very thoughtful. In addition to sorting out all the news information and materials of the Snowden incident, they also specially designed some lines to make the meaning of the news story obvious and deepen a lot, and deepen the audience's understanding of the news event step by step.
At the end, although there is still a little feeling that the movie ticket money has been cheated, there is nothing special about watching the movie, and the actors are okay, but this kind of unprecedented low-quality picture brings a very unique creativity and meaning. So I still recommend everyone to go to the cinema to feel it, because watching the computer at home will not feel this feeling too much.
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