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Snowden Movie Analysis

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This essay is based on a movie called Snowden. This movie was directed and written by Oliver Stone and also written by Kieran Fitzgerald. Snowden was based from the book The Snowden Film. This films has a number of cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, Sailene Woodley as Lindsay Mills, Melissa Leo as Laura Poitras, Zachary Quinto as Glenn Greenwald, Tom Wilkinson as Ewen MacAskill, Scott Eastwood as Trevor James, Logan Marshall-Green as Male Drone Pilot, Timothy Olyphant as CIA Agent Geneva, Ben Schnetzer as Gabriel Sol, Keith Lee Stanfield as Patrick Haynes, Rhys Ifans as Corbin O’Brian, Nicholas Cage as Hank Forrester, Joely Richardson as Janine Gibson, Robert Firth as Dr. Stillwell and Ben Chaplin as Robert Tibbo. In this essay the main characters: Edward Snowden, Lindsay Mills (Snowden’s girlfriend), Keith Standfield( the and Corbin O’Brian (Edward’s instructor). This essay will consist of a summary of the movie as well as the ethical and moral values being portrayed in Snowden by the four main characters. Before starting this essay, let me …show more content…

internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGADUS-984XN. PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms. The NSA uses these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on stored data that telecommunication filtering systems discarded earlier, and to get data that is easier to handle, among other things. According to the Oxford Dictionary, Ethics defined as the moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity. Morals are defined as the standards of behavior; principles of right and

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