‘Citizenfour’ Is Mesmerizing (If You Don’t Mind the Omissions)
CLAUSTROPHOBIC
Citizenfour is a simplistic tale of Snowden and white hats and black hats, where subtlety and context play little roles and the existence of smoke always indicates fire.
About halfway through Laura Poitras’s highly acclaimed new documentary Citizenfour, the film’s key protagonist Edward Snowden offers an explanation to Glenn Greenwald and Ewan MacAskill of TheGuardian* newspaper as to why he stole thousands, perhaps even millions of classified documents from the National Security Agency and, in the process,...
