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 who have watched these two films admit that it is hard not to. Comparing each other, I even feel that the narrative clues of "The Fourth Citizen" influence the other one.
In turn, I watched Oliver Stone's drama first, and then watched "The Fourth Citizen", but the impression I got was the same. Compared with the former record in the high-pressure state and fearless response, Oliver is quite satisfactory. Although he tried to use a three-dimensional story to tell the audience that Snowden came from an American military family background, and his conservative patriotic political bias, he questioned himself in the process, and finally stood up to expose the illegal surveillance of the US government that shocked the world, trying to use layers of layers. The cross narrative creates tension, but it seems to be inadequate. The only surprise is that Snowden played by Joseph Gordon Levy, except for a 70% similar appearance, deliberately changed the tone, and even finally switched from Joseph Levy to Snowden himself without any sense of disobedience.
The process and revealed facts in "Fourth Citizen" are more jaw-dropping than the smoking news, Snowden said: between citizen and government has becoming rulling and the ruled.
The balance between citizens and government has been transformed into the relationship between the ruler and the ruled. After the Snowden incident in the United States, the NSA withdrew the monitoring program, and it seemed that citizens had won back privacy and freedom.
But the US government, which has always emphasized human rights and freedom, has truly lost the government's credibility, and this is a country where freedom issues can be discussed. # Fourth Citizen##史诺登#
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