: Disillusioned by the extent of this mass surveillance, he decides to leak thousands of classified documents to journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, and filmmaker Laura Poitras, during a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong.
: The script is based on the books The Snowden Files and Time of the Octopus . While Oliver Stone aimed for realism, the movie takes some creative liberties typical of biographical dramas. snowden-2016-720p-bluray-movizland-com-mp4
: While working as a high-level contractor for the NSA, Snowden discovers that the government is collecting a "virtual mountain" of digital data, tracking not just foreign threats but ordinary citizens. : Disillusioned by the extent of this mass