Snowden is going to die in Moscow? – The public.en

"Donald Trump will watch the movie and love Snowden? Not. Hillary Clinton will change his opinion about Snowden? Not. But the movie will help the new generation of americans to relate to what has happened and realize that what Edward Snowden did is in the public interest. One day he will be nominated for the Nobel Peace prize and America will not hold for 100 years that someone who wins the Nobel prize". Thus begins the encounter between the PUBLIC and the british journalist Luke Harding, in her brief passage through the city, to promote the new thriller politics of Oliver Stone, Snowden, which premiered this Thursday in Portugal, about the ex-employee of National Security Agency (NSA) that revealed to the world the program of secret spying in the United States that allows you to watch any person in the world.

The journalist Luke Harding has never been with Edward Snowden. The former correspondent of the british newspaper The Guardian in Moscow, was deported by the Russian Government in 2011, and is persona non grata in that country. Also don’t know Oliver Stone. Covered the war in the Ukraine when the controversial american director went to London and made notes on nearly all the pages of the book written by Harding, The files Snowden – the secret history of the most wanted man in the world (Harbour Publishing, 2014), but recognizes in the film of the same conducting wire, the dramatic book. “When I wrote the book was very important for me to explain why Snowden did what he did, his motivations,” says Luke Harding to the PUBLIC, adding: “it Was essential to explain the intellectual journey of a patriot, its passage by the army when part of the legs, the disillusionment with the CIA and with the NSA until the decision to become a whistleblower. When we write non-fiction books we have that we stick to the facts. When I saw the initial scene in which the journalists are with Snowden in the hotel in Hong Kong celebrated – ‘Wow, I wrote that,’ – but Snowden is a thriller political classic, is the Hollywood, the love story, the relationship of Snowden with girlfriend this is everything Oliver Stone."

Oliver Stone has paid 700 thousand dollars for the rights to the book to the newspaper The Guardian. It is estimated and it is speculated that the journal british have spent even more on the work of investigation of the files of Snowden that earned the uk daily the Pulitzer, the Oscar of journalism.

the size of The information leak is also a matter of controversy. A document from the Department of Defense north american, which went public last year, said that they were 900 thousand files only in that Department, more than the 50 to 200 thousand of the Security Agency, the NSA.

But to get to Edward Snowden, Stone has had to go further. In fact the story behind the movie is in itself a plot. The relaizador paid a million dollars for the rights to the book Time of the Octopus written by Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, another character that seems to have gone out of the fiction. Defender of Vladimir Putin and of many oligarchs russians he was the one who orchestrated the political asylum of Snowden in Russia, and became his lawyer. Thanks to him, Oliver Stone has met nine times with Snowden resides in Moscow since 2013.

The thriller was filmed in Munich whose surroundings have been transformed into Maryland where the headquarters of the CIA and the NSA. Neither the death of the mother of the director made him get out of the set filming. The obsession with history led him to believe that she was being guarded by the secret service. Why not? Has postponed the release twice and came to be seen with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in the theatre, and a military parade. According to the newspaper New York Times, when asked to Stone as had been the experience of filming this story, the response was blunt: " it Was horrible in all senses." All that were around him laughed, less Stone.

extraordinary heroes

The advertising campaign of the movie is articulated around the inevitable question: Hero or traitor? When you watch the film it is easy to reach the conclusion that Oliver Stone considers Snowden a hero. Luke Harding also has no doubts: "Snowden was against his own organization, against the machine of espionage in the United States, against the political system to reveal the ability for services to espionage have to gather data and store them in a dimension unimaginable: e-mail, text-messaging phone, the iPhone data… Even when the computer is turned off, the camera may be triggered to spy on any person in your own home. What he did was extraordinarily heroic. He knew that was going to give the cable of his life, that it would have more prospect whatsoever of a normal life with the family. But even so he was in front and said: ‘I do Not want to live in a world in which everything that we say and do, the whole expression of love, is recorded.’ It is a manifesto for the collective of our era. More and more people, and not only the americans, but the Portuguese, europeans, people in my country perceive and recognize in Snowden a hero.”