Eye In The Sky

Would you be willing to kill a little girl if it meant saving the lives of 80 other innocent people? Would you willingly let a little girl die so you could also kill a terrorist in her vicinity who was about to go on a suicide mission?

This is the question that the film tries to deal with, explain, ask us. As an audience we take up the two opposing sides. Kill her and save the other innocent people. Let her live as there is no way can we kill a little girl as that would be a media nightmare and the terrorists would win the propaganda war.

This movie grips you from the very beginning and does not let go. For its running time I forgot that there was a world around me and that this was just a movie.

And in spite of a straightforward plot there were plenty of the twists and turns within the world that was created and brought alive here.

This reminded me of another film called Unthinkable which made the audience and the lead character face a similar dilemma. Both films are remarkable. 

Unthinkable deals with the torture of a terrorist who knows where he has placed a bomb which is going to go off soon killing hundreds. No matter how much you torture the terrorist he isn't willing to tell you the location of the bomb. What would you do? Would you bring his family in front of him and start to torture them instead to make him reveal the bomb's location? Could you torture a child in front of a father, a wife in front of her husband to save hundreds?

Dilemma! What would you do?

Both Unthinkable and Eye In The Sky are thrillers that stay with you a long time after they have ended. They may seem like American propaganda films but they are much, much more as these situations will be faced by security forces the world over. 

Put them on your must watch list. And spend some time thinking, what would you do in that situation?    

Eye In The Sky

Unthinkable