That's my memory as well. I also don't remember any cognitive dissonance
between Poitras' and Greenwald's answers to Snowden's question about how
much background to go into. The film doesn't portray a lot of daylight
between Snowden and Greenwald in what they want to do, really.

But that's what you should expect from the movie, I think, given a) how
close Poitras and Greenwald are, and b) that the movie is clearly meant to
tell Snowden's story and show his motives and impact, not amplify any drama
between the people involved.

The movie didn't cover, for example, Greenwald misleading the entire world
on why David Miranda was detained at the Heathrow airport. Greenwald
initially insisted it was simply the gov't applying pressure on Greenwald
by harassing his family, lambasting the government as cruel despots, and
didn't say anything about Miranda carrying an encrypted hard drive. You can
still criticize the government for detaining him how they did, but lying
about the reasons, to get an edge on defining how the news cycle talks
about it -- that corrodes trust.

But, you know, that's fine, that's for others to tell. CITIZENFOUR is about
Snowden's decisions, not Greenwald's decisions, and it does a great job at
communicating and humanizing them.

-- Eric