Citizenfour - A New Film Report

The first thing that struck me about CITIZENFOUR was the almost disappointing nebbish appearance of Edward Snowden, the key character in this well-designed documentary that was mostly filmed in a small hotel room wherein Snowden was hiding out. There-- in the city of Hong Kong-- he had meetings with several people whom he'd chosen to publicly reveal the documents he had purloined from the secret files of the NSA data ports, which he-- as analyst for Booz Allen Hamilton-- had become privy to. ...