Reality is always more cruel and absurd than movies

Kay 2022-03-26 09:01:06

No matter how much the ministers or prime ministers in the film struggled with when they agreed to the bombing, the 45% casualty rate may have a comforting effect on their hearts and reduce their guilt, but it is sin after all, and you are the last to crush the little girl. a straw.
Movies come from life, and reality is always more cruel and absurd than movies. In the face of the real facts, all excuses or sophistry are weak. As a doctor, I can never forget the bombing of the "Médecins Sans Frontieres" hospital in Afghanistan by the US military in 2015, and I don't know if I experienced so much deliberation and deliberation like the characters in this film at that time. If so, then the incident may be Can it be avoided?
The choice under the moral dilemma is the most difficult; the war is the most cruel, in the torrent of history, no one can choose his own destiny, the same is true for the German army under Hitler, the Japanese army in Japan's invasion of China, and the Red Army soldiers in the Cultural Revolution; Individuals say that they are just executing orders, but in the torrent of history, as a coercion or a follower, you can choose to raise or lower your muzzle an inch when doing evil, and press the hands of the counter-revolutionaries to leave a copy. Strength, maybe that's what human nature can do in war or hell of no choice.

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Extended Reading
  • Tavares 2022-03-23 09:02:05

    In a humanitarian film, halfway through the shooting, the bureaucrat kicked the ball and turned into a yes minister. How big is the shadow area of ​​the South African director's heart for the British bureaucracy. . . Grandpa Alan is going all the way.

  • Guiseppe 2021-12-19 08:01:08

    A typical "tram car problem" paradox: very superb group performance, the atmosphere is rendered in place, and the tension is very urgent. Anxiety is human instinct when everyone is doing "last thing" in an environment. Politicians consider political influence, and soldiers consider the gains and losses of actions. Operators can only obey orders.# American politicians are all “killing” British politicians are all “I can’t be responsible”#

Eye in the Sky quotes

  • Angela Northman: In my opinion, that was disgraceful. And all done from the safety of your chair.

    Lt. General Frank Benson: I have attended the immediate aftermath of five suicide bombings, on the ground, with the bodies. What you witnessed today, with your coffee and your biscuits, is terrible. But what these men would have done would have been even more terrible.

  • [last lines]

    Lieutenant Colonel Ed Walsh: You did well. Both of you.

    Steve Watts: Thank you... Sir.

    Lieutenant Colonel Ed Walsh: Now you go home. Get some rest. I need you both back here in 12 hours... Okay?