Eye in the Sky

A little girl, who has the full right to live, finds herself in the way of a war which must be fought. The director could not have done a better job if he wanted to show us how extraordinarily pathetic is the Western response to terrorism. Men in ties and women in pants sitting at a table with coffee and biscuits thousands of miles away from the mission's objective, who keep putting off the job while they fight over commas, legalese and the meaning of collateral damage, are soon joined in their moralistic confusion by two "pilots" sitting in a hangar, who question the order before the order is given, and who start crying at the thought of releasing their weapon. On the one hand, if democracies had fought this way against Hitler, there is no doubt that today we would all be speaking German; there would be no nation of Israel; and Jews would exist only in museums or in the form of lamp shades. On the other hand, that little girl is precisely why we have imposed a straight jacket on people in uniform with guns and drones.

If they'd left out the flying beetle and hummingbird camera scenes, which would be better off in a James Bond or Mission Impossible film, and come up with a different means to discover what's inside the house, it would be more believable. Also, the use of the cute little girl seemed to be very manipulative of the audience. The entire moral quandary they face seems to hinge on potentially killing an innocent girl, at the expense of examining bigger moral questions.

It was a bit slow to start, although necessary while building the plot, but kept me at the edge of my seat, and finally broke my heart... An emotional roller coaster!