Citizenfour

Documentary about Edward Snowden and the US surveillance programs. It was an interesting film and interesting to see Snowden speak himself about why he decided to leak. It was clearly a difficult and extremely thoughtful choice that he went into knowing the potential consequences.

I’d seen ‘Snowden’ the drama film and I couldn’t help comparing it to that. I think ‘Snowden’ is significantly better. It gives more context about Snowden, shows more about the surveillance programs, and just tells a better story overall.

3 stars. (This is purely compared to ‘Snowden’. I’d say see ‘Snowden’ instead. On it’s own it would be 4 stars.)