Citizenfour
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 2014 |
| Country | United States, Germany |
| Director | Laura Poitras |
| Cast | Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum |
| Genre | Documentary |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Citizenfour | – |
| Español | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| Français | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| Deutsch | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| Português | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| Italiano | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| Русский | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| 中文（简体） | 第四公民 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 第四公民 | – |
| 한국어 | 시티즌포 | Sitijeunpo |
| ไทย | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| Tiếng Việt | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Citizenfour | Citizenfour |
| 日本語 | シチズンフォー スノーデンの暴露 | Shichizunfō Sunōden no bakuro |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which state surveillance and public disclosure collide within whistleblower-mediated journalism
■ Synopsis
A former intelligence contractor reveals mass surveillance programs through journalists while the act of disclosure itself becomes a political event.
■ RECIPE Tags
#StateSurveillance #Whistleblowing #PublicTruth #JournalisticRisk #InstitutionalSecrecy
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Secret power against public knowledge
Reason: Governmental surveillance exists outside democratic visibility until disclosure forces public confrontation.
Related Film: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Middle: Journalism as transmission of risk
Reason: The truth reaches the public only through a chain of sources, reporters, evidence, and legal danger.
Related Film: All the President’s Men - Core: Exposure without safe return
Reason: Disclosure does not restore normal life but moves the whistleblower into irreversible exile and permanent conflict.
Related Film: The Insider
■ Secondary Axes
- State accountability: Hidden institutional practice becomes contestable only when documentation escapes official control.
Related Film: The Report - Surveillance society: The private citizen becomes structurally exposed under systems designed to remain invisible.
Related Film: The Lives of Others
■ Person
- Director: Laura Poitras
- Cast: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Ewen MacAskill, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
■ Structural Tags
#DisclosureStructure #SurveillancePower #WhistleblowerThreshold
■ Attribute Tags
#AmericanGermanFilm #2014Film #DocumentaryFilm
