---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
That said, what made the documentary "Citizenfour" so powerful was getting to see the man himself, sitting in that hotel room in Hong Kong, presenting his material to Glenn Greenwald *in real time*. This made the movie for me as well. Snowden did not make this about himself, but rather about the data, the findings, the bad policies and illegal practices. In the small art house we were watching the film in, people were gasping, because the drama was REAL. I have a lot of respect for Greenwald for his taking this risk on a story like this and also for his great skill in communicating what the message is. Most chilling of all is his summary that if people can't speak freely because they are being watched, then you have effectively killed free speech and democracy.
