Citizenfour is a decent documentary, it’s mostly just long scenes of Edward Snowden talking to Glenn…

Citizenfour is a decent documentary, it&rsquo;s mostly just long scenes of Edward Snowden talking to Glenn Greenwald in that Hong Kong hotel room but that already makes the stakes clearer than most silly thrillers. Snowden makes a very lonely hero: his moral position is clear but the revolution he hoped to spearhead never really happened, and total surveillance just became normalised. and Barack…