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‘Citizenfour’ Is Both Essential Journalism and a Gripping Profile of Lived Truth
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‘Citizenfour’ Is Both Essential Journalism and a Gripping Profile of Lived Truth

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Christopher Campbell
Aug 25, 2015
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Citizenfour begins in the dark, alone. Laura Poitras reads her first missive from Edward Snowden aloud over the image of a car driving through a tunnel, all wrapped in shadow save for two red taillights and a line of yellow lights above. The scene soon switches to that of a computer screen, encountering and then decoding the encrypted email. It captures…

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