Snowden Movie Review Approx

Best I can tell even walking around two broken legs for weeks. when do I go back you ever again land on those legs ears bones turn to Powder any other ways to serve your country. you want it to be Special Forces yes sir why do you want to join the CIA. I'd like to help my country make a difference in the world. the average Test time 5 hours um it's been 40 minutes 38 minutes. what should I do now whatever? you want the deputy director of the NSA. offered me a new position can you tell me anything in that I can't find the terrorists on the Internet. hey, stop you're making people very happy. thank you ready for a little action oh this looks juicy. how is this all possible to think of it as a Google? search except instead of searching all in what people make public. we're also looking at everything. they don't email chats SMSWhatever. you have a rich people the whole kingdom Snow White the NSA is really tracking every cell phone in the world most Americans don't want freedom. they want Security actually people don't even know they've made. that bargain is they watch us there's something going on inside the government. that's really wrong and I can't ignore it I just want to get this data to the world. I feel like I'm made to do this and if I don't do it then I don't know anybody. else they can this is everything I have they're gonna figure out. what I've done did you access an unauthorized program the he government knows that we have these documents? now can look into a  possible death sentence. I can't turn back from this watch yourself we are running out of time. They're gonna come for me they're gonna come for all of you two.

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Snowden is directed by Oliver Stone and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt. as Edward Snowden the man who leaked classified documents to the press letting. America knows that we were under surveillance it's also the story of his relationship with Lindsey Mills. played by Shailene Woodley as well as everything surrounding his Eventual decision to leak. those documents to the press when it comes to any filmmaking but especially. Oliver Stone films I try to check my personal beliefs at the door. because he's a filmmaker who's very much so attracted to politically charged Material so that can be harder because of a lot of times. his movies have messages he really wants you to think the way he's thinking. but it's important with this film and really all films to judge the film on the merits of its filmmaking. it's writing it's acting it's Directing because really in 30 or 40 years if my review of Snowden is being watched by somebody are they gonna care about today's modern times. no, they want to know If the movies any good so I'm going to talk about the movie. Oliver Stone does some very innovative things in this film with the camera. I really like the way this film looked He shot it on a very new camera the Alexa 65. this is a beautiful looking movie very crisp very clear and it does its best to make a lot of technical jargon mainstream enough for audiences to appreciate. if you've never seen the documentary citizen 4. Which is the real-life doc about these events in this film is going to be more interesting to you it's a story that's endlessly fascinating and it definitely. has a Subject that is also fascinating but if you've seen citizen 4 then some of these events are gonna feel a little more like old news to you this is definitely. a more mainstream attempt to make this film more accessible to your everyday audience member. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in this film is incredible if you have seen that documentary. this is the visa, Jared Snowden, he sounds exactly like him he looks as close to him as any Hollywood actor who's famous he did a fantastic job in this movie. Shailene Woodley is also a really good one of the best performances. I've seen from her as Lindsey Mills she had a very vulnerable real sense to her and this relationship. between these two people really grounded the film in some form of humanity because you need it. that for this character you can't just have it be about that integral moment where he leaked these documents and made that choice really. all the performances are amazing Nicholas shows up in this movie and he was very entertaining. presence technically this is a very well directed movie with great performances. but I saw this movie yesterday and I had to sleep on it because something about it was bugging me and I just couldn't pinpoint it and actually took me a while to come up. with what my problem with this movie was we have at the core of this film a protagonist that is endlessly fascinating a story. that is resonant and imperative to our times but something about the movie is just unremarkable. because a lot of it builds to one moment we know is coming when he eventually makes this decision everything else surrounding. that is a bit conventional sometimes real-life stories no matter how compelling. they may be or how important they maybe just don't translate to film very well and a lot of that is due to the fact that Edward Snowden appears in this film. to be a perfectly normal person who led a very abnormal life and sometimes it's just not theatrically very compelling. but at the same time, it could have been a lot more interesting if Oliver Stone had trimmed this movie a little more carefully. it's a very long film and sometimes the pacing drags as a result. because he seems to have this intrinsic need to show you everything that you need to know about this man and certain details just don't really translate that well to film because it's like okay. I get it he did that he did that he did that he did that but what I really want to know is what drove him to do this and you do get those moments. but unfortunately, the film as a whole just wasn't very entertaining. I appreciate the film on its technical merits and the fantastic performances but as a whole overall film. I could never see myself free watching this again and I don't think it's gonna have that timeless appeal that films like JFK platoon born on the fourth of July had also the film makes a choice near the end a very ballsy choice. it's the kind of choice beer like that better work if you're gonna do that and it kind of does like it reveals. something and you're like oh okay that's okay all right I guess in the end if you're huge. Oliver Stone fan you're going to appreciate certain parts of this movie it's not one of his best films it's not one of his worst and unfortunately is not that great return to form. that I was hoping it was going to be but it's still a movie that is relevant enough and interesting enough for mainstream audiences. that I think people will at least find some enjoyment in it I'm gonna give. Snowden a b-minus guys thank you so much as always for watching look forward to this Sunday. because I'm gonna be starting a new review series leading up to rings. I'm gonna talk about some of the other ring films including the first Japanese ring as well as the two American ring and the ring two films. this Sunday ring I'm looking forward to reviewing that you guys are the best thank you so much as always for reading and if you like this