This is my review for the 🎥 movie :
EYE IN THE SKY
Last night, we watched Eye in the Sky, a 2015 thriller that centers around a drone strike on a terrorist group. Two special drones ( a beetle and a hummingbird ) I didn’t expect to like it, but it was very moving and thought-provoking. It did an amazing job of bringing the complex world of counter-terrorism, international military cooperation, and the unique ethical considerations of drone warfare to life. And I was seriously taken by that under belly feeling that the pilot who had to fire and his side kick had such a difficult choose to make. And it was Veterans Day yesterday in Holland and we watched a talkshow before the movie started with three veterans that made an appearance at the king and got a medal for service. So all in line with the things happening intros movie.
The film humanises “collateral damage” by giving a backstory to a little girl, Alia, who happens to sell bread near the strike target. She has no idea that US and UK military officials are watching the house behind her, or that some of the most wanted terrorists in the region are preparing human body bombs inside it. She’s just selling bread. Her parents are lovely, of course, and they go against the oppressive regime’s misogynistic attitudes by educating her and allowing (even encouraging) her to play. You’re rooting for her, and it’s incredibly sobering to think of all of the real life humans like her whose deaths have been described as “collateral damage”. And of course kids make everybody sobby. Well it does me as a mum.
This film proposes that, despite the physical distances involved, drone warfare still involves significant emotional intimacies and ethical dilemmasfor our military personnel. But I guess that’s their job. Films that wrestle with the rapidly changing nature of war are a great idea for movies nowadays. As drone warfare continues its slow march into public consciousness, Eye in the Sky is the movie to tackle the legal and moral surrounding modern technological war what is a hot topic these days.
And although the movie is 5 years old, I love that those movies are still being made to let you and me and the rest of the world know that this is also war. All the behind the scene work before a missile is being fired. That so many people are involved in making decisions to end a war or start a war. You don’t want to be dependent on one crazy man in these situations. Although some countries have that.
To do that, Eye in the Sky tells the story of one particular mission on one particular day in the war against a terroristic cel like Al Qaida but in Kenya. British colonel Katherine Powell (played by the lovely and very sweet and adorable Helen Mirren, yes I am a fan ! ) she oversees a secret operation to capture a terrorist cell in Nairobi, Kenya. When the mission uncovers a more immediate threat than anticipated, though, the situation escalates. There's just a British colonel, also cool that she is a woman! Two American drone pilots, again one is a woman! And some undercover agents, and alot government officials with all their own ideas and butter on their heads. For the record I don’t want to be in their shoes.
Throughout its 102-minutes , Eye in the Sky raises many questions, from who has the authority to authorize force to whether minor casualties are an acceptable loss if they mean preventing an attack that kills thousands. And it depicts those questions as more than just thought experiments, but as things that stack and snarl, paralyzing decision makers who are playing by outdated rules of war.
The main argument within the film is whether the British government, aided by American drone technology, can go after its own citizens if those citizens are plotting an act of terrorism within the borders of a friendly country. Even when they are in the most wanted list.
All and all a good movie and I was caught by the reality. Next to Helen Mirren o also liked the role played by Barkhad Abdi, He also played a Somalian man in the movie reviewed by me earlier on steemit “captain Williams with Tom Hanks. He is sooo good Go see the movie. The drones are special aswell. The movie is shot in South Africa.
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Date : 28 June 2020
