Citizenfour

Directors: Laura Poitras

Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and William Binney

Summary:

A documentarian and reporter travel to Hong Kong for meetings with Edward Snowden. This documentary solely looks at the USA keeping tabs on other governments, countries citizens and those citizens of America. Edward Snowden is the person who gained access to many different top-secret documents revealing the notion that anything you do, the government can and have held a record of it.

My Review:

This documentary is easily the best film I have seen in the past couple of years. I somewhat understood what news channels were talking about during the time that Snowden was revealing what the American government were doing. But this documentary left me with a comprehensive understanding while providing for intriguing viewing of behind the scenes of how Snowden was revealing all this information. The audience gained a better insight into him as a person and how he was living in Hong Kong during this time. I would’ve potentially liked to see more about Snowden once all this information was revealed. Overall I can see why it got an Oscar and would recommend this to anyone.

My Rating:

9.5/10