spiralofhope

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4044364/
https://citizenfourfilm.com/

A documentary on, and interviews with, Edward Snowden.

I suppose it has some interesting material, and certainly the topic is great, but as a viewing experience this movie is boring as fuck.

• You may also want Citizenfour – (2014 movie) foreign subtitles

• 0:15 —

  In 2006, I was placed on a secret watchlist after making a film
  about the Iraq War. In the following years I was detained and
  interrogated at the US border dozens of times.

  My next film was about Guantánamo and the war on terror.

  This film is the third part of a trilogy about America post 9/11.

• 2:00 — I actually understood all of that.
• 2:15 — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 3:00 — Glenn Greenwald, salon.com 2011
• 3:30 — Barack Obama

• 4:00 — December 2012

  • 4:15 — A month later

• 5:45 —

  William Binney is a legendary NSA crypto-mathematician. During the Cold War,
  he analyzed nuclear threats. In the 90s, he shifted his focus to the internet and
  developed methods of mass data analysis.

• 7:45 —

  • Michael Hayden
  • Tennet(?)
    – I found no such name in its list of leaders.
  • DOJ = United States Department of Justice
  • Stellar Wind
  • Nancy Pelosi

• 8:45 — Camp Williams:

  The NSA has built the world’s largest repository for intercepted communications
  in Bluffdale, Utah. I started filming the site in 2011 when construction began.

• 12:30 — Hepting v. AT&T:

  In 2006, technician Mark Klein revealed that the NSA was tapping
  into AT&T‘s network in San Francisco. Customers filed a lawsuit.

  Years later, the litigation is still at the preliminary phase.

• 16:15 — Jacob Appelbaum, Occupy Wall Street
• 18:30 — Millions or hundreds of millions. What about tens of millions?
• 20:00 — Hong Kong
• 21:00 — June 3, 2013, Monday
• 28:00 — The Guardian, Ewen MacAskill

• 34:45 —

  • Tempora
  • “Full take”

• 41:45 —

  • SSO = Special Service Operations
    – See Special operations and I guess Joint Special Operations Command, though I’m not quite sure what he’s talking about.
  • PRISM (surveillance program)
• 42:30 — XKeyscore
• 58:45 — Okay look. That guy’s head is inexcusable. Certainly they have the technology to unshine it. Lighting, makeup, something. A polarized filter on the damned camera.
• 59:15 — GCHQ = Government Communications Headquarters

• 60:00 — UDAQ

  • Search frontend
• 1:09:30 — Buy the man a razor! All of this filming all of this time and he’s looked scrubby as hell.
• 1:10:45 — Homeland – (2013 book)
• 1:14:45 — How do people know where he is?
• 1:21:15 — O Globo
• 1:22:00 — Is the audience supposed to understand any of this?
• 1:25:15 — GCHQ Bude, United Kingdom
• 1:25:30 — I’m tired of transcribing all the text..
• 1:25:45 — Ecuador
• 1:26:45 — Brasília, Brazil

• 1:27:30 — I’m less worried about this not being subtitled than I am in being able to understand bits of it. Somehow.

  • I went and found subtitles: Citizenfour – (2014 movie) foreign subtitles

• 1:34:00 — Moscow, Russia

• 1:36:45 — Lavabit
• 1:40:00 — Der Spiegel – (news magazine), Berlin – Germany
• 1:40:15 — Is that Angela Merkel?
• 1:40:45 — Dagger Complex
• 1:44:30 — Deep Throat (Watergate)
• 1:47:00 — Jabber

• 1:47:00 — Why keep writing things down?

  • 1:47:30 — I hope this is a dramatization, because it’s stupid as hell.