Snowden was a well-filmed movie and if you told me that the actor Lakeith Stanfield was in it, I would have watched it sooner. The movie “Snowden” tells of Edward Snowden’s journey to expose the United States government. He was in the military fighting the war against Iraq but due to an injury, he had to leave. That is when Snowden decided to work for the CIA. While working for the CIA, Snowden learned so much information about the United State government and he felt the need to expose it. He leaves his job at the National Security Agency and decides to leak this classified information. In order to do so, he had to leave the life he had. He had to leave his girlfriend and the United States. He goes to Hong Kong and stations himself in a hotel. He gets journalists that he trust and gets them to write the story that would be published in the United States exposing the government. In the movie, Snowden said “This is not about terrorism. Terrorism is an excuse. This is about economic control and social control and the only thing your really protecting is the supremacy of your government.” I agree with that line because the government is in a position to protect us and in the process that is spying on citizens is illegal. As the government that holds millions of people accountable for their actions should not be doing something as illegal as spying on people when they think they are in private. That use terrorism as an excuse to justify the illegal action they are doing.

Watching this movie help me confirm that the government is watching us because it all could have been fake news but knowing that someone can confirm it and seen it happen with their own eyes is proof. The only proof I had was new articles which could have been fake news to keep people on their toes, but this man Edward Snowden sacrificed his safety and well being to tell ME and citizens and the world that we don’t have privacy like we thought we did and that it is possible for the government to track us even when we don’t know that we are being tracked. Snowden said “The people being able to question our government and to hold it accountable. That’s the principle that the United States was founded on.” and that is messed up that is was happening behind our backs. The scene with the Muslim women talking off her burka was a great way to show the extreme of how invasive the government is being. Edward Snowden is a hero even though he is considered a whistleblower. He opens many people’s eyes to how we will never have privacy with our phones or with cameras around. I like how we could see how he really looks at he end.

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