CLIP FILM SNOWDEN : Oliver Stone DIRECTOR : 2016 YEAR : Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Edward Snowden), Shailene Woodley (Lindsay Mills Melissa), Leo (Laura Poitras), Ben Schnetzer (Gabriel Sol) CHARACTERS SYNOPSIS In 2013, an ex-employee of the CIA and the National Security Agency named Edward Snowden a series of documents that revealed the agency breaking the law by spying on the world. This instantly made him one of the most wanted men in the world. The film covers the decade leading up to the leak. After being from the military special forces due to , Edward Snowden decides to join the CIA and discovers his talent for coding and cyber security. , Snowden meets his girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, on a dating website and starts a difficult relationship. In 2007 Snowden moves to Geneva where he meets Gabriel Sol, a brilliant informatic technician who has a great experience in electronic . After some time, Snowden begins questioning the ethical implications of his work at the CIA, so he eventually resigns from the agency. Snowden later takes a position at the NSA (National Security Agency) in Japan, initially with the task of creating a program, Epic , that would allow the government to back up all critical data from the Middle East in case of emergency. At the NSA Snowden learns that the NSA and other US government agencies are using practices which include planting malware in different computers that manage government, infrastructure and financial sectors to spy on the world. He begins to feel the stress of protecting the NSA’s illegal activity and the stress soon causes him to reveal the truth. To show what is really going on becomes his mission, even if it means sacrificing his own life. In 2013, Snowden arranges a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong with journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald. They discuss about releasing the classified information regarding illegal mass surveillance conducted by the NSA. With the help of journalist Ewen MacAskill, the information is passed to the press on June 5, 2013, with additional leaks published in the following days. Immediately after the leak, Snowden leaves Hong Kong on a flight for Latin America with a stopover in Russia. However, the US government revokes his passport, forcing him to remain in Moscow indefinitely. leaked discharged injury Meanwhile surveillance Shelter