“Snowden” and “Citizen Four”
“It was this background that prompted Edward Snowden, several years later, to choose me as his first contact person for revealing NSA damage doing on an even more massive scale” --(Greenwald, G, 2014).
After watching movies “Snowden” and “Citizen Four,” I think internet security and privacy are the controversial issues in the United States. In the movie “Snowden” the protagonist is Edward Snowden, who find illegal surveillance programs of the United States; he was a sinner for the government when he reports this privacy to journalists. I think Snowden is the guy who wants to protect the citizen’s right. On the other hand, the movie “Citizen Four” is similar content as “Snowden” but different genre; it mainly discussed Edward Snowden and NSA spying scandal. I want to talk about what I learned about security and privacy by watching these two films.
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I was astonished about the U.S. government when I noticed that they are so easy to control people’s information from all over the world. Although I understand the government might want to keep safe for American, they have no permission to monitor everyone’s activity. Moreover, the internet is free for most of the people at current, we have right to know and judge anything.
These two movies reflect the similar story, but different feeling to me. I think the movie “Snowden” did an excellent job of highlighting and explaining; it was not only describing the war between privacy and security but also record Snowden’s character which enlightens me a lot. For instance, he didn’t care about money, status and marriage, only he wants to do is protect the righteousness; also he still insisted his proposition when he became criminal for leaking information to media. I appreciate this movie because it taught me that justice is always a winner. However, the film “Citizen Four” was a little bit annoying; it just expressed that people can do anything when they are in dangerous which gives me tension and fear.
I am very pleasure to take media and culture class in this summer because it told me lots of information about the U.S national social that I never heard before. On the other hand, I realize that Government cannot command the media to dominate people’s thinking; we are qualified to know the truth. In the future, I will continue to write blogs on the internet because I want to communicate my thought to people around me. In the end, I appreciate to this class again for telling me that truth is not luxury forever.
Greenwald, G. (2014). No place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US surveillance state. Macmillan.