Watching Movies is my thing, actually, anything on Television is my thing, Movies, series, etc from romance to action packed, to documentaries and reality TV, just as long as it is not scary, overly sad or mindless. For someone that loves movies you would assume that when I get an Analysis of Business problems (ABP) case that was a movie I will be excited, but of course my first reaction (without even seeing the name of the movie) was dread, because for some reason I assumed that it will be a boring documentary( I wonder where I got that idea considering that most of the written cases so far have actually been interesting.
Fast forward to when I finally watched the movie, and it was right in my alley and the kind of movie I like and mirrored a lot of the series I watch all the time. Typically, when I watch movies, I am all in and pay attention to every word and nuance, I am one of those people that repeats movies they like verbatim. However, when I was watching the movie, I could not take out from my mind the fact that I had a timeline to watch the movie and I was watching the movie to provide a review. To be honest, that cast a cloud on my viewing experience, but I was eventually able to shake it off.
Now to the movie, “Eye in the Sky” is a British thriller released in 2015. The storyline circles around a mission targeting a group or terrorists in Kenya and the ethical, legal, and political impasse faced by the military personnel in deciding how to proceed with the mission. Whether or not to move from a capture to a kill Mission and the consequences of both as well as the use of a drone strike. The movie basically explores the complexities of modern warfare and the decision-making process under such high tensioned environments and is centred around a drone strike that is supposed to hit this group of terrorists and the implications of the strike.
It then becomes more complicated when a young girl enters the target area, and her entrance brings to question the morality and ethical implications of the operation which leads to them having to assess the rules of engagement on minimising collateral damage in such situations and decide if the risks are worth it. Is it in the best interest of the greater good? Is it justifiable to their conscience as individuals and the public?
The individuals that made up the decision-making team were high-ranking officers that were supposed to be able to make final decisions in situations like this. However, no one seemed to be willing to take responsibility for the actions due to personal interests, ethical reasons, inexperience, and several other reasons.
In the end, the magnitude of the decisions to be made bring to the fore the need for agility, experience, and clarity of purpose(goal) in high-pressured, time-sensitive situations such as the situation they were faced with.
“Eye in the Sky” comprises of a tense plot that brings up thought-provoking questions on technological advancement as it relates to warfare and modern warfare generally as well as the difficult decisions faced by those at the helm of affairs and the consequences and ethical implications of the decisions made by them.
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