1. That's my memory as well. I also don't remember any cognitive dissonance
2. between Poitras' and Greenwald's answers to Snowden's question about how
3. much background to go into. The film doesn't portray a lot of daylight
4. between Snowden and Greenwald in what they want to do, really.
5.  
6. But that's what you should expect from the movie, I think, given a) how
7. close Poitras and Greenwald are, and b) that the movie is clearly meant to
8. tell Snowden's story and show his motives and impact, not amplify any drama
9. between the people involved.
10.  
11. The movie didn't cover, for example, Greenwald misleading the entire world
12. on why David Miranda was detained at the Heathrow airport. Greenwald
13. initially insisted it was simply the gov't applying pressure on Greenwald
14. by harassing his family, lambasting the government as cruel despots, and
15. didn't say anything about Miranda carrying an encrypted hard drive. You can
16. still criticize the government for detaining him how they did, but lying
17. about the reasons, to get an edge on defining how the news cycle talks
18. about it -- that corrodes trust.
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20. But, you know, that's fine, that's for others to tell. CITIZENFOUR is about
21. Snowden's decisions, not Greenwald's decisions, and it does a great job at
22. communicating and humanizing them.
23.  
24. -- Eric