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struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 03:33 AM Sep 2016

Film tries too hard to make Snowden a hero

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
JOSEPH DOUMIT

The new biopic Snowden .. is a film about one of the .. most famous .. dissidents .. by a filmmaker .. celebrated for his .. dissidence. It should be a match made in cinematic heaven. So why isn’t it? ...

... we meet the titular character .. in basic training .. with montage of mud, bunk-beds, climbing-towers and an angry, African-American drill sergeant ... When .. forced to leave that career path due to injury, he applies for a position at the CIA’s cyber-security division. Soon after, he is in a classroom where his teacher .. is setting them a task .. supposed to take four hours. After forty minutes of rapid typing, Edward shuffles up to O’Brian’s desk and, in .. best Kermit the Frog, tells him he’s finished.

Around this point you realise you’re not watching an espionage thriller, but a biopic about a man in his mere thirties, and .. not a very good one. How many times have we seen basic training in the mud? Or the classroom where the student finishes the exam obnoxiously early? How about the one where the hero meets the love of his life .. online? She’s an amateur photographer and fitness-oriented-pole-dancer who’s politically left-leaning. They disagree, right, but they love each other anyway.

Here’s a crazy idea: Edward Snowden, as a person, might just be a boring guy ...


http://iris.theaureview.com/film-review-snowden-usa-2016-tries-too-hard-to-make-edward-snowden-look-like-a-hero/

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Film tries too hard to make Snowden a hero (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2016 OP
I liked it. hotrod0808 Sep 2016 #1
I really liked it. Highly recommended Arazi Sep 2016 #2
Every time some reviewer casts shade on Stone, I make sure to see the movie twice. ancianita Sep 2016 #3
+1 kristopher Sep 2016 #4
Oliver Stone BainsBane Sep 2016 #5

hotrod0808

(323 posts)
1. I liked it.
Fri Sep 23, 2016, 03:40 AM
Sep 2016

Some of it was plodding, some of it was exciting. I saw it with my future step-daughter, who is 15 and coming into her own thoughts on ethics and politics, and she enjoyed it as well.

ancianita

(35,812 posts)
3. Every time some reviewer casts shade on Stone, I make sure to see the movie twice.
Mon Sep 26, 2016, 01:03 AM
Sep 2016

I lived as an adult during all the times Stone made his movies about. He's never lied.

I also don't think Stone makes movies about boring people.

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