[Movie Critics]: Eye in the Sky (2015), British Anti-Terrorism Movie
"Eye in the Sky" is a US-type anti-terrorism theme film with a unique perspective. It explores the ethical dilemmas of war and life in a complicated international situation with sophisticated lens language. The director has brilliantly adopted innovative scenes to build the story. The ingenuity of the script was finally presented, and the film was nominated for the 88th National Association of American Critics Award for the Top Ten Independent Film Awards.
We have seen a lot of films about war and anti-terrorism. There are only a handful of films of the same type that are eye-catching. This masterpiece is such an innovative film that has won many praises. In the film, the director used a lot of overhead shots to look down from the sky and portray the life and battles of the people in the Middle East. The film cleverly uses the high-tech drone as the other eye to observe the story, leading the audience in a thread. In a few fixed scenes and spaces, audience can experience the oppression of the little girls on the anti-terror scene. The director let this pressure gradually escalate with the advancement of time and put the characters into the extreme scene to show the moral dilemma the truth.
On the other hand, the film is quite clever in the arrangement of the script. The film can divide the story into two clues in parallel with the space. The officials of the general headquarters push and play each other. The soldiers and terrorists on the battlefield surround the small. The girl’s life is embarking on a long human struggle. The director made this battlefield struggle driven by the external general command situation, creating a multi-person debate scene that suppressed tension. And the tension between the official game led to the further upgrade of the battlefield storyline. These two scenes interact with each other, eventually forming an emotional resonance that leads the film to the climax of the subject.
The film shows a sharp and profound moral dilemma. Through the trade-off between the life of the little girl and the victory of the war on terrorism, the director portrays the different faces of different people facing the same problem. Humanity is exposed at this moment. Simply showing and trying to avoid a deliberate tendency to one side is quite desirable for the director. This film once again moves the heavy and intractable contradiction to the table. In fact, everyone knows very well that no matter how war is famous, it is based on life as the ultimate cost. In the face of war, life is always so fragile and regrettable.
Throughout the whole work, Gavin Hood, the director of Eye in the Sky, has an excellent and sophisticated ability to control the rhythm of the picture and the story. Additionally, the appearance of the overlooking scene has made the film stronger. Under the background of high-tech weapons in the United States, the balance between life and the war on terrorism that the director explores is undoubtedly heavy and profound, and this moral dilemma is still happening. The film's excellence lies in its stereoscopic display of the characters in this dilemma in front of every audience, making the film more like a recorded image of the face portrayed in the war. This innovative approach and film is profound. The theme is enough to make it a good anti-terrorism theme. In the face of moral dilemmas, it is better to hope that it will save lives. It is better to expect that one day, the war can stop, and life can be re-standing with dignity. I think this is also the bright future that the creators expect.
My Score is 7.9
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/333352-eye-in-the-sky?language=en-US
Critic: AAA