Heavy material in a cinematic airy package

Rating: 8/10 (25 September 2016)

Stone really did a great job explaining us, the people who are not involved into hacking, how the monitoring software of the US intelligence community works. He shows us the edge of the legal limits and maximum regardless of this invisible war.
Some scenes are adjusted based on Laura Poitras' documentary "Citizen Four" and were acted pretty authentic. It fits perfect into the whole movie, as a mix of Biopic and Thriller.
A big plus is how Stone sets up the relationship of Snowden and his partner Lindsay. They give the audience a chance to breathe and to ask fundamental questions like: What is private? What is political? Who is allowed to know what? Snowden said: "To argue, I do not care about privacy, because I have nothing to hide, is so as to say, freedom of expression does not care, because I have nothing to say." Stone has substantiated this argument cinematically in a intense and exciting way.
Peace