Someone is watching us....Eye in the Sky

What would be more important....save the life of one or trying to save the life of millions? Decisions, decisions...and that's the plot and all the base for the new film "EYE IN THE SKY" (2016), an intense drama customized as a thriller where we get to be part of how the life of millions and other few are decided and ended or forgiven by just a few. Are we playing god these days, or what power do some get over other to control faith and be able to destroy or create. We are sit in a moral dilemma of what is good and what could be better and mostly who is bad and who is dispensable. All of these comes in a story leaded by the great actress Helen Mirren, playing a militar colonel in charge of a secret operation trying to locate and killed a list of the most wanted terrorist nowadays has the opportunity to guide from her base in the UK a mission that will accomplish it's target. So everything starts once some agents in Kenya get the intel of a secret reunion between these most wanted bringing the opportunity to put a target on them and take them out.

Following these operation is a lieutenant general and a couple of american pilots in charge of a drone carrying the bomb that will annihilate them. So once the pieces start to get together and targets are reunited, its time to make some decisions as should we order a missile attack? are those people actually the ones we are looking for? is it safe to drop a bomb with a minim collateral damage?, check, check, che...no wait!, there always will be collateral damage so in order for a nation to be able to fire a missile in a foreign land has to reduce it at less than 50%. So now someone can drop a bomb in your backyard only if they can prove according to a lot of maths and analysis from a computer that the damage will be less than that. As shocking as it sounds, these is the world we live now and part of has become from terrorist attacks. So when things happen in this scenario, this possible damage goes up to 75%, so the whole mission goes in stand by, specially by the morals of some that not only see these as a militar move, but can see the damage to others, mostly innocent people, will carry.

So, in order to continue the mission, a lot of people has to be involved and a lot of greens will be needed, but at the same time this group is trying to do their best to reduce the damage and continue with the target, these targets are planning another move that seems like possible will affect another million of people or worse. So then we get t the point where we are caught by a moral conflict between saving those that we are able to save now and we are watching right now and are as innocents as any other but happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or sacrificing them in order to possibly save others, that we still don't know when, and how many will be but we can mostly imagine i,t is worth it. And things only get worse when we realize how easy is for some to just look at what's happening now other than the big picture and not relate to others than are also needed to be safe. How can someone else other than ourselves is capable of decide our future or if we live or die, Isn't that wat are they trying to fight anyways, to save lives, so means that some lives are more valuable than others ?

And when we stop to think about all this dilemma things get more scary once we realize how some nations have taken power and control over the world and over others. Here is group taking all decisions, that is represented for just some of the most powerful countries in the world but should it be one reprinted for a variety and bigger selection of different nations. Definitely they are judging themselves by their own recent power but that won't stop them to continue ruling what their think will be the best for them or maybe for the rest of us, but why has to be a decision of a selected and privileged group. The fight against terrorism is a worldwide problem that should be solved in the same way.  We are living in a classist world where some nations are ruling the planet while others are just mere spectators and the rest are the target for them for their best interests. But thing not only get there, once we realize how far are they willing to get to achieve their goals, as they are able to spy on us and have access to all our data, becoming public and without any privacy anymore.

Hence to the title, there is someone watching you, observing every step you make, analyzing all the information can get from you, from your credit card balance and shopping history to all your family and personal background, personal interests and every location you been at. You can be invited to a party and been having a great time just before realizing your host had made some bad thing and if that makes him a target for the government, you will be also invited to see first row how they'll drop a bomb over the patio that you might or not survive but that's not the issue but make sure that friendly host is dead and buried otherwise a second missile will touch base again. How dispensable we become in order to accomplish others mission? and these is just a big picture but back to our daily basis we can also see these among our neighbors, job, friends, family, even relationships. We play under the rule of making decision for a better but sometimes we forget the price it comes with it or we blind ourselves of the collateral damage of them, which at the end might not be the better we thought but the worst. Only real thing around this is that every decision will bring two or more possible scenarios and we'll always have to face any of them but how capable and aware we are of them before it hits you. Sometimes we don't need to save or take a life to create big damage but just a sentence or an action to take away all what we been fighting for. Is it really necessary?