"Snowden"--A Companion Piece to "Citizenfour"

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2016)

In Oliver Stone's new biopic thriller, "Snowden", we see the humanization of a young 20-something US software engineer who is self-taught and brilliant in his deciphering the surveillance agenda of the CIA and the NSA in 2013. In what is now the most well-known disclosure of US intelligence and surveillance policies targeting unaware citizens, Edward Joseph Snowden has become the personification of what counterintelligence represents in the global arena.No matter what you think of Snowden's colossal exposure of classified documents to the world, this epic story of why he did it and how he pulled it off makes for a compelling and exciting film. It should be seen along with "Citizenfour" which provides less of the idiosyncrasies of Snowden's personality and more of his software genius as well as the motivation for his disclosures to Poitras, in particular. Oliver Stone recaptured some "Citizenfour" scenes almost in identical detail. This is a must-see for 2016! Read the entire review at: www.unhealedwound.com and let me know what you think.