1103 Hidden Ridge APT #2018: Review of the Movie Snowden

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Review of the Movie Snowden
The movie focuses on a CIA agent Edward Snowden who revealed some of the secrets of the CIA including the intrusion of privacy by the CIA on the citizens of America. The movie released on 16th September 2016 by Open Road Films and was directed by Oliver Stone and written by Kieran Fitzgerald (Internet Movie Database; Imdb.com). The starring Joseph Gordon-Levit who acts as Snowden has featured along with Shailene Woodley who acts as his lover Lindsay MillS. Other casts include Zackary Quinto who acts as Greenland and Mellisa Leo who acts Poitras. The smooth unfolding movie presents a young Snowden whose value for principles and his conscious stands out in guiding him in his profession leading to his bravely act of revealing the government secrets.
Edward Snowden plans to meet with journalists Luara Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong to discuss the release of information contained by Edward about the massive illegal surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA). In a flashback, Snowden joins the US army to receive the training of the Special Forces. He later undergoes the screening process at the Central Intelligence Agency, and he is admitted by the Deputy Director Corbin O'brian (Scott;nytimes.com). He undergoes training on network surveillance and impresses Corbin as his best student alongside those he was recruited with. He meets Lindsay with whom they date and later joins a diplomatic mission to work in Geneva where he takes Mills with her. He comes back to Maryland and works as a consultant for the CIA. All along he realizes several secrets of the government on illegal surveillance, and he becomes uncomfortable with the way the government was surveying the citizens illegally and other countries. He smuggles a micro SD card with all the relevant data and reveals to Ewen MacAskill, and the information was released to the media on June 5th, 2013. He later organizes to seek asylum in Hong Kong, but his passport is revoked by the US government. However, he manages a three years asylum in Hong Kong with Mills joining him later (D'Alessandro; deadline.com).
The Movie focuses on the theme of betrayal from the side of the US government in its governing principles and the betrayal of their allies. Snowden joins the NSA in Japan in a program so-called "Epic Shelter" in which they pretend to be building a network program that backs up all data from the Middle East for its use in cases of emergency (D'Alessandro; deadline.com). Snowden later realizes that such practices are very rampant among all the countries that are allied to the US. They install malware to government systems so that in case the governments turn against them they shall have some very crucial data against them. When Snowden comes back to Maryland, he realizes that the Epic Shelter was designed to provide the data that assisted the US drone strikes in Afghanistan. While undergoing training at the Central Intelligence Agency on cyber warfare Snowden is thought about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act which stipulates that government agencies should seek a warrant from judges before they initiate any surveillance on the citizens of any nations (Benjamin; theguardian.com). In his conscious, Snowden ...