Wednesday March 28th 2018

USA 2016  129 minutes
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodey, Melissa Leo

Edward Snowden became the world’s most famous whistleblower when he exposed the secret activities of America’s National Security Agency by distributing thousands of classified documents to the press (most notably the UK’s Guardian). We first encounter him at a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong in June 2013, and his story is then told in a series of flashbacks, from his joining the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an idealistic and patriotic young man, to his disillusionment and disgust with its illegal activities. A traitor to some and a hero to others, he becomes a fugitive from the law. An engrossing and tense political thriller.