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If you are hoping to learn something fundamentally new or hitherto unknown about the events of 2013, when a former CIA and US National Security Agency employee Edward Joseph Snowden handed over classified information about the surveillance of the United States government agencies for information to The Guardian and The Washington Post communications of citizens around the world, then Snowden will turn out to be a tragic disappointment for you. Despite the advertising campaign, the new movie by Oliver Stone (director of Wall Street and John F. Kennedy: Shots in Dallas), the real and possibly the main director-patriot of his country, turned out not to be a thriller. and a drama about the relationship of two people - Snowden himself and his girlfriend Lindsay - who went through fire and water and managed to preserve their primordial love and care for each other despite everything.

Snowden was made incredibly smart, interesting and a politically correct knight move, betting on the complex personality of the title person. Instead of looking into the intrigues that lay on the surface of all news reports when Snowden fled first to Hong Kong and later to USA, where he received a three-year residence permit, Stone looks much deeper and looks primarily not at the patriot, traitor or a spy, but on a modest, closed, shy person who lived for several years with a clear awareness of his own responsibility as a citizen and an individual, in front of the whole world until he finally decided on a desperate act and made the secret clear.

Of course, there is some cunning in the statements of Stone and the producers of the picture that they do not treat Snowden as a character with any was prejudice and do not make him neither a hero nor a traitor. Because there are also pathetic shots and loud statements and a general predisposition to Snowden, which is not bad, but on the contrary is good. This is not a faceless movie, but a movie with soul and passion for the subject in question, even if it is not at all the movie that many expected to see.

nor a traitor. Because there are also pathetic shots and loud statements and a general predisposition to Snowden, which is not bad, but on the contrary is good. This is not a faceless movie, but a movie with soul and passion for the subject in question, even if it is not at all the movie that many expected to see.

nor a traitor. Because there are also pathetic shots and loud statements and a general predisposition to Snowden, which is not bad, but on the contrary is good. This is not a faceless movie, but a movie with soul and passion for the subject in question, even if it is not at all the movie that many expected to see.

Snowden has several tense scenes that make you hold your breath or even bite your tongue, but they all fade into the background, while the first is a love story, played out by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley with equal amount of attraction and heartache. After all, few people know that Lindsay, Woodley's heroine, was with Snowden even before he realized his mission. They were an ordinary couple, convinced of the greatness of their own country and willing to work for its good. It was Lindsey's conviction that true patriotism lies in the ability to recognize the mistakes and imperfections of the state system of the homeland that influenced Snowden's subsequent decision to contact three journalists and risk his own life to give voice to those who did not have one.

Let the story begin with a meeting with these journalists in Hong Kong, most of it unfolds in flashbacks by the time Snowden served in the army, then met Lindsay, got a job at the National Security Agency and from there began to develop his career, plunging more and more into the closely guarded secrets of the United States and convinced of the disappointing incorrectness of many of their actions. Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn't just play Snowden convincingly, bringing his shyness in gesture and articulation and an intelligent accent to the screen. Levitt also manages to bring a lot of nuance into the highly mechanical everyday conversations with his colleagues and other characters. It does not look like a drawn media image. Levitt creates a very tangible personality that is hidden behind the outward modesty of habits, and how sincere and touching Snowden appears at the end of the movie makes your heart tremble. This screen image is perhaps the main advocate of all his actions, which in itself speaks of the impression that Snowden made on Stone and on the actors.

It is worth noting, however, that "Snowden" can be considered a solo album by Gordon -Levitt and Woodley, since there are few other actors in it and they exist more as furniture for the scenery of Snowden's life. All these second-rate characters do not really make any impression, you do not worry about them, and you do not like them, which calls into question the tension throughout the movie. The first half appears rather boring and pale, bathed in mostly faceless tones and imposed on electronic music. The second cannot surprise because of the well-knownness of all the facts shown and will be really interesting only for those who did not follow the developing situation in the news.

Oliver Stone tries to diversify the visual style of the picture, add a hidden suspense to it by choosing angles and an emphasis on details, but all these attempts in the end do not make much of an impression. The dullness of the script and the special stylization of the picture get in the way of an adequate and consistent story. While the movie looks like a finished work in the end, it obviously lacks balance. Snowden runs and tramples. Either impressive, or disappointing.

Nevertheless, Snowden is a movie that will surely remain in history, at least due to the importance of the object viewed under the microscope. Yet this is not the movie one would expect, judging by the talent involved and the piquancy of the story being told. It's more of a human drama with a positive and upbeat ending that doesn't have any impact, as if you think about it, and Snowden's story in real life. After all, despite all the prohibitions, the US National Security Agency still with an almost one hundred percent probability is watching you through the small black windows of the cameras, and the fact that you know about this allows you only to wave your hand at them. Or cover the camera with duct tape.

and Snowden's story in real life. After all, despite all the prohibitions, the US National Security Agency is still with almost one hundred percent probability watching you through the small black windows of the cameras, and the fact that you know about it only allows you to wave your hand back at them. Or cover the camera with duct tape.

and Snowden's story in real life. After all, despite all the prohibitions, the US National Security Agency still with an almost one hundred percent probability is watching you through the small black windows of the cameras, and the fact that you know about this allows you only to wave your hand at them. Or cover the camera with duct tape.

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