3. Before seeing it, I assumed that “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’s documentary about the National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, would be yet another work of earnest cinematic advocacy, preaching to the choir on issues already widely aired in the news media. What I saw was something much more subtle, artful and unnerving: an eyewitness political thriller dramatizing the confrontation, in an ideologically confused and technologically tangled age, between the individual and the state.

3.劳拉·珀特拉斯(Laura Poitras)的 《第四公民》(Citizenfour)讲述爱德华·斯诺登(Edward Snowden)泄露国家安全局机密的故事，在观看之前，我觉得它可能又是一部真诚的辩护电影，在传播一些新闻媒体中已经被说了很多的言论大合唱。但我看到的东西要更加微妙、有技巧而令人不安：这是一部目击式政治惊悚片，在这个意识形态混乱、技术进步纠结错综的年代，将个人与国家之间的冲突处理得更加戏剧化。