Those who have watched the preview of new films in theaters on Monday and this week know that there are actually many new films worth paying attention to this Friday, including Hollywood blockbusters such as "Space Traveler" and Chinese small films such as "Young Babylon". However, among them, I would like to recommend the most, and the one that can give four stars is probably this one.
That's right, it's the Eye of the Sky, and the Douban score is just 8 points, four stars.
This film has been screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival before, and the response is very good. Now it is officially released in theaters, but it is also a very good choice. Although there are many voices of doubt about the theme of the film, at least in terms of the viewing of the film, the audience's opinion is quite unified.
Almost everyone thinks the movie is tense, gripping, and good.
As a person who has never been sensitive to politics, I can probably only focus on ornamentation.
It is also because it is not very sensitive to these. Therefore, I don't dare to write this kind of movie myself, for fear of saying something stupid and being laughed at. So, I found a friend who is good at this kind of subject and helped me make this recommendation.
Gavin Hood, the director of "Eye in the Sky", is a South African, and his early works were mostly co-productions based on local origins, and like many third-world directors, he entered the mainstream Hollywood system by winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
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One of them, "Anti-Terrorism Doubt", is also about the issue of counter-terrorism, Xu is tired of Hollywood rules, this new work "Eye of the Sky" returns to the early works in production, and the story is about the popular war on terrorism.
The film begins with a joint Anglo-American beheading aimed at East African terrorists in Somalia, and most of the time the film is debating whether to carry out the operation. The heads of various departments blamed each other and refused to take responsibility, so that the action was delayed again and again.
Interestingly, the anglo-American relationship in the film is exactly the same as reality, and the United States will always be a staunch executor, a city on the top of the mountain forever. The UK is...
The Foreign Secretary hesitated even with the permission of the President of the United States to consult the Secretary of State.
It is also very common for these officials to argue in the conference room about whether to execute a military operation or not, especially in many works of the sixties when nuclear fear was at its peak, such as Kubrick's satirical masterpiece "Dr. Strange Love".
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Compared with the controversy about the unwarranted events in "Dr. Strange Love", it is obvious that what is happening in reality such as "Eye of the Sky" is more moving. In recent years, terrorist activities have become more rampant, and the issue of counter-terrorism has become the world's largest problem. In the elections of Western powers, how to deal with terrorist attacks has also become an increasingly important issue. In times of peace, everyone is at risk. That's why Eye of the Sky is so popular, it's a universal backdrop.
Of course, the plot will not be so simple. The twists and turns of the film are also that when it comes to the final goal, the characters will encounter one choice after another, a very difficult choice.
When officials finally passed an action resolution intending to target terrorist gatherings with missiles, a new situation was encountered.
It turned out that the pilots refused to carry out the mission, on the grounds that their bomb attack could kill a little girl selling bread near the target.
Thus, a very typical moral dilemma arises, even if you can spit on them SMB. But it's really a very effective and gripping plot drive. Is the life of the little girl in front of you important, or is it more important to the ordinary people who will soon be killed by terrorists?
Therefore, in front of these soldiers and politicians is a choice of choice, to weigh the pros and cons, but also to take care of conscience, of course, but also to pay attention to their respective careers.
The American pilot played by Aaron Paul is an important turning point in which he shows the multifaceted character of a person.
It should be noted that the people who have not been on the battlefield and have no war experience are the ones who have not been on the battlefield and have no war experience, and after the end of the operation, the military general played by Alan Rickman directly told the most staunch opponent, the female political adviser, that it should never be thought that the soldiers did not know the cost of war. At the end of the day, it's a struggle between a group of people who don't have a big picture and a sense of responsibility and a group of staunch actors.
In addition, the film connects Somalia and U.S. military bases with London through communication facilities.
Modern communication makes it more obvious to the viewer that everyone is in a different world, and the most direct contrast is between Alan Rickman's uninformed little daughter and the little African girl who eventually died in the hospital. One is a cute girl living in a developed country expecting a new toy, and the other is a life at gunpoint forever.
In order to arouse the audience's empathy, the film sets the little girl's family as a family yearning for Western civilization, the father secretly teaches his daughter mathematics, and the film even arranges a scene where an extremist reprimands the little girl who plays hula hoops to highlight the family's awkward position in their own ethnic group.
Political correctness and multiculturalism are the themes of this era, and even terrorist attacks have been hailed by Western intellectuals as an act of national self-reliance.
The film also makes a fuss about it, and Gavin Hood always stands on the humanitarian side of the individual. Clint Eastwood, who also involves the theme of counter-terrorism, has been much more determined and direct in his recent masterpiece "American Sniper", and the male protagonist is arranged shortly after the opening of the film to snipe a child terrorist and a pregnant terrorist, breaking the convention of decent characters in the film not to kill children and women, and directly distanced from the usual Hollywood humanitarian model drama with a warm temperament.
Gavin Hood sees the key issues in dealing with terrorists, sees the dangers of political correctness, but always seems to want to get around them. Cinema ultimately falls on humanitarianism, but there is never a proper sacrifice in the confrontation between good and evil in this world, and the perfect choice only exists in the created art world, which is why people need art.
"Eye of the Sky" is a literal translation of the English title, and the original English word is the meaning of surveillance. A large number of scenes in the film are made up of surveillance shots, which bring both a sense of danger and powerlessness, and cannot respond immediately when seen, just as people live in the world of television.
In the film, various bionic surveillance facilities emerge in an endless stream, and different perspectives brought about by the characteristics of various monitor materials also have different visual presentations. This is the characteristic of this era, the impact of cameras everywhere on people's lives is everywhere, and the popularity of mobile phone cameras has also made it possible for anyone to retain image memories, and there is also a fear in the strategy room of the movie that if the little girl is killed, this live explosion video will have a disastrous impact on the government.
Thanks to the online media, public opinion is easier to form and easier to be guided than in any era. The film does not talk about the possible reaction of the media to this, and in reality, some media with serious political tendencies have been creating various public opinion disasters, in any case, as a one-hundred-minute film, it carries enough content and emotions.
Of course, in addition to the plot itself, there is another reason for our attention to this movie, and that is that Alan Rickman, counting, he has been away from us for almost a year. Time flies so fast, alas!