I recently watched the movie Eagle Eye. Eagle eye is a robot/computer used in the military that can hear every phone call, control every camera, and hack into any computer system. She can use any piece of technology to do what she wants, for example, control traffic lights and security systems. Eagle eye knows everything about everyone. She can find out what someone’s career is, where he or she lives, who his or her family is, and any other intimate detail about that person. Eagle eye had basically had control over everything.
In the movie, eagle eye’s main focus was to make sure that the Constitution was always being upheld, but she took it too far. The president made a wrong decision and that led to the death of many innocent people. Since this was an injustice, eagle eye took it upon herself to seek revenge and attempt to kill him. She was trying to kill him because she thought that it was better for the people if the president was dead. So she decided to rectify the problem by taking matters into her own hands.
In the end humanity was able to overcome the evil of technology by each doing their own part. Even though all of these main characters were chosen against their own will, in the end they were all willing to give up their lives to save many other people. This shows that good ultimately will overcome evil, no matter how bad it seems. No matter how bad circumstances seem, God will always work through the hearts of people to keep this world going. Good always wins.
When I watched this movie I really didn't put "good always wins" into the picture. I watched the film like I would watch any film...just for the entertainment. After the film I thought about it a little bit. I now realize that good does always triumphs over evil. I think that as humans sometimes we think what were doing is right and we...just like the computer take matters into our own hands. When we fail or do not accomplish what we wanted to we realize that and the good person wins. I think that this is something that we really need to focus on.
ReplyDeleteHmm ... your plot description seems to be lacking quite a bit of information about the story. Several main characters in the film aren't mentioned and, ultimately, this is a story about those people. How did they find their way through the conflict of the story?
ReplyDeleteAnd while it's certainly true that good will always overcome evil, it seems that your conclusion is a little too simple. For example, technology, in and of itself, is not solely evil.
Finally, what do you think the filmmakers were trying to say through this film? Why was this story worth telling?