So what political angle are they trying to spin this movie?

I have no idea but I hope it's pro-Snowden.

Yes the political angle, the government shills and apologists are out in force on this board.

Oliver Stone is notoriously left-winged so I would imagine that this movie would reflect that.

Eddie is a KGB plant from the 80s. His commie parents sent him to commie camp every summer, where KGB agent Vlad Putin groomed him to subvert the capitalist-imperialist system from within. After his treasonous acts Eddie escaped to Putin's Russia, and lives in a Crimean villa surround by hot Ukrainian babes.

Since Ollie is a commie too, he will no doubt spin the ugly truth into Eddie the Marxist Martyr.

He did it for love!

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

No, Hollywood does not always have a hideous political agenda.

The comments here are laughably ignorant.

"Nixon" has grown to become one of my favorite Oliver Stone movies. Did he bring a political agenda to it? Nope. There's no evidence in the movie that Stone is taking any hard position on the man. Only agenda there is to point the camera at him and try to understand Nixon from the inside out. He did such a great job of allowing us into the complexities of Nixon's private inner world that for 3 hours we saw beyond the meme he'd become as just a crook in our popular culture. It humanized him late in life and gave the public the opportunity for a second look at him, and we found that his record as President was actually not bad on a number of levels.

Stone's a liberal and Eastwood's a conservative yet they never impose their own viewpoint as much as they're curious to find the shades of gray in the subject matter. Some people think "American Sniper" is hero worship; on a second look, is it really? There are clean, clear, defining moments in that movie when it's apparent that other characters understand Chris Kyle in a way he doesn't even understand himself. He's so ensconced in his own super-patriotness that he has no awareness of the fact that he's just a spoke in a military wheel that's spinning in quicksand in an unwinnable, broken-merry-go-round mission. He's not just a tool, he's what Thoreau described as "the tool of his tool". But we empathized with him because we could understand the surrounding complexities in a way he couldn't because he was inside the bubble while we have hindsight on our side.

I suspect this approach will be the same with "Snowden". It'll try to understand things from his point of view and it'll find some welcome breathing space between the hero/traitor labels he gets.

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What political spin. Let the Us Government spy on everybody and shred the 4th amendment.