"City in the Sky" seems to overturn this assertion. It is just a "fixed-point removal" of terrorists by a drone, but through real-time transmission of various monitoring devices and satellites, the missile operator can attack the target that is about to attack thousands of miles away. The goal is clear, this form of war has almost become a live broadcast war, and the intuitive imagery has caused huge psychological pressure to the operators of the killing machine.
This psychological pressure comes from a little girl who sells flatbreads. Terrorists in Somalia are dangerous, but the scope of killing obviously includes this innocent little girl, so this constitutes a typical "tram problem", a political philosophy. It's hard to choose - the so-called political philosophy is also jurisprudence, so we see that the film is full of legal debates.
With contemporary communication and transmission technology, the Western world (Britain and the United States) has become a close military alliance, and has built an instant chain of command across the world. From the surveillance robots at the forefront of Nairobi, to the drones in the sky, to the front-line command agencies in the United Kingdom, to the missile (drone) operators in the United States, to the highest decision-making body (the British Cabinet Department), emergency companies are also required. The British Foreign Secretary and the U.S. Secretary of State, who are visiting two different countries in Asia, can be described as coordinated actions of globalization, with close political-diplomatic-military ties, affecting the whole body.
Of course, the China that appears in the film is still not without symbols, with the deliberately red costumes of Chinese characters and the steaming table tennis stadium. More than 40 years ago, the Chinese people engaged in diplomacy with the Americans by playing table tennis. In 2017, it is still in the play table tennis. But fortunately, this is not the main body of the film. "The Eyes of the Sky" is here, and it is still facing the little girl who sells flatbreads, to fight or not to fight?
If they fight, the little girl is likely to die; if they don't fight, seeing the terrorists wearing explosives, they will create a bigger terrorist attack. Thus, a war on terror was transformed into a legal debate on the live broadcast. The front-line commanders who advocated the attack kept calling in legal advisers for consultation, and in the top decision-making office of the British cabinet (the prime minister successfully kicked the ball), senior legal officials such as the Minister of Justice and the Attorney-General actually assumed the command of the war. The only way is that under the overwhelming advantage of Western warfare technology, terrorists in Africa actually have no way to escape, but the legal (moral) problems faced by the attackers and self-censorship make terrorists (and the little girl who sells flatbread) ) are always on the line.
The final ending will not be spoiled. The justice (jurisprudence) dilemma reflected by "Eye in the Sky" is enough to make people sigh. Objectively speaking, the "eye in the sky" carried by the drone turned the war into a live broadcast, thus breaking through what Zygmon Bowman called a "push button" war, and put the naked violence in reality. Intuitively presented in front of the war participants, which put them under enormous psychological pressure. The humanitarianism of "the muzzle of the gun is raised an inch" is always inquiring into the hearts of every conscientious person.
Is the eye of the sky, the eye of justice hovering above the sky and staring at the world?
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