"Good Kill," Major Tommy announced.
This is not a highly imitated new game on Play Station, even if they have the same first-person perspective, the enemy can be wiped out at the touch of a button.
Good Kill, in this major role interpreted by Ethan Hawke's performance, is progressive, never a "perfect blow" for a job, and excessively a "goodwill kill" that follows Hollywood's universal value in the ending.
Satellite positioning, precision guidance, and surgical strikes are words that we are already familiar with in the news from the mountains in northern Pakistan, the battlefield in Iraq, and the Gaza Strip controlled by Hamas. Susan Sontag once described the "militarized rhetoric" in the famous book "The Metaphor of Illness", and now, in turn, has entered the battlefield in the form of "medicalized rhetoric". However, since surgical operations can cause accidents and doctor-patient disputes, the American soldiers in the security war room more than 11,000 kilometers away can guarantee that the missile that hits a bungalow in an Afghan town will not harm the innocent? The senior officials in the Pentagon comforted the compassionate "combatants", "Believe me, wrongdoing killing women and children, I am even more sad than you, but if you do not resolutely implement it, successive 9/11 will fall on the Americans. "The set of excuses that they have already understood is completely consistent with the Israeli intelligence agency Sin Bet's attitude towards Hamas leaders "I would rather kill a thousand by mistake than miss one."
Major Tommy Egan in the movie was an F16 fighter pilot who wandered through the perilous airspace of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, when he returns to the United States, half of the time, he has become an unmanned aircraft operator huddled indoors, and the other half, he has become an ordinary husband and father in a middle-class community outside of Las Vegas. In the same desert, the clean American community is dotted with grass and green plants, while the dilapidated Afghan community is filled with yellow sand. You can extend the satellite image a bit further, and look at them from a certain God’s perspective. They are all exactly the same. Tommy, the husband weeding in the courtyard, suddenly looked at the sky blankly, thinking of the same courtyard 11,000 kilometers away. What were the terrorists and their families who had been "perfectly hit" by him before they died? At the same time, the female adjutant Vera Suarez in the war room was deeply hurt by witnessing the rape atrocities of the Taliban because of this perfect surveillance without blind spots.
The quiet and wide Nevada desert, the Bahia border that is always overlooked by the camera, the drunken Las Vegas Strip, the clinking slot machines... the camera makes these opposing images in strong conflict. These military personnel are so close to the prosperous gambling city, but in their hearts they are getting closer and closer to the hooped children and masked women near the terrorists’ nest 11,000 kilometers away. As for Major Tommy, who has a married life, this split knot makes him and his wife farther and farther away.
From "Trumen's World" to "Virtual Idol" to this "Benevolent Killing", director Andrew Nicole is obviously very good at grasping and expressing the human plight behind the media technology. It's just that the satellite vision from killing to pity to punishing evil and promoting good is completely turned into the vision of the gods who control the power of life and death in the eyes of the Italian audience of the film festival. The Americans really regard themselves as God. As a result, as soon as the media screening was over, there were boos all over the theater, showing no sympathy for the scene at the end of the movie that truly embodied "goodwill" in the killing.
The major drove away from the military base and from the "hands of God". He wanted to recover his wife and children who gave each other space and time. In recent years, "Game of Thrones" and "Atlantic Empire" have loved the band The National, sang a song "Afraid of everyone" (Afraid of everyone". On the highway sign, Renault is only 5 miles away.
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