CLIP Snowden PRODUCTION: France / Germany / Usa 2016 DIRECTOR: Oliver Stone CAST: Edward Snowden (himself), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Edward Snowden), Shailene Woodley (Lindsay Mills), Rhys Ifans (Corbin O Brien) BASED ON: The Snowden Files, by Luke Harding; Time of the Octopus, by Anatoly Kucherena SYNOPSIS Based on a true story, the film gives an accurate picture of the events leading whistleblower Edward Snowden to the largest leak of US government secrets in history. It is 2013. Edward Snowden is in Hong Kong where he arranges to meet Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, two of the journalists to whom he has decided to give copies of leaked NSA (National Security Agency) classified documents. In a flashback to 2004, Snowden starts telling them about his military training in the US Army, from which he is soon discharged due to a leg injury. He then applies for a position at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he starts a class under Deputy Director Corbin O Brien. Snowden brilliantly passes his test and is given his first post in Geneva, Switzerland, where he has to maintain computer network security. It is here that he realises that his work contributes to his government s highly intrusive and global surveillance, with no regard for people s privacy. Snowden therefore decides to resign from the CIA and later accepts an assignment from NSA that takes him to Japan, where he has to build a program that would allow the government to back up all critical data from the Middle East in case of an emergency. He finds out that NSA is actually planting malware in computers managing governments, infrastructures and financial sectors that would help the US to shut down any country turning against them. Snowden decides to leave his post with NSA and go back to the USA, where he starts working as a consultant for the CIA. While on mission in Hawaii, he learns that the backup program he has designed, called Epic Shelter, is actually used to get real-time data the US use to assist actually: in realtà drone pilots in launching lethal strikes against terror crew: equipaggio to discharge: congedare suspects in Pakistan. His great disillusionment with to face: affrontare his government s practices leads him to download all leak: fuga di notizie relevant data onto a micro-SD he hides in a Rubik s to resign: dimettersi Cube and finally gives to the journalists he meets in strike: colpo whistleblower: talpa, informatore Hong Kong. 222 The real world