GOOD KILL: A Game of Drones, Latest Trailer for Andrew Niccol's Tense Thriller
Will Andrew Niccol's latest feature capture the imagination of the movie going public in a similar fashion to American Sniper? On the surface, both films share a number of commonalities, not the least of which are soldiers having to kill their enemies from afar, with a certain unquestioning detachment.
But unlike Clint Eastwood, Niccol has made a career out of questioning the emotional and psychological significance of where we are and where we are going in terms of technology and its applications. From the sci-fi genetics drama Gattaca (also starring Ethan Hawke) to synthetic actors in S1Mone, to his screenplay for Peter Weir's The Truman Show, the man has a knack for this particular line of inquiry. Here he gets to play in the theater of the current Middle East and drone warfare.
We missed this film when it premeired at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, but here is an excerpt from their catalog synopsis to perhaps pique your interest:
The film opens Stateside on May 15th and the latest trailer is below.In an air-conditioned shipping container somewhere in the Nevada desert, a war is being waged. Behind a door that reads "YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE USA," five flight-suited US Air Force officers operate drones that hover above "zones of interest" in the Middle East. At the press of a button, tiny targets viewed on computer screens vanish in plumes of smoke, as in a videogame.Egan (Ethan Hawke) used to live to fly. Now, he spends eight hours each day fighting the War on Terror by remote control and the remaining time at his suburban home, where he feuds with his wife (Mad Men's January Jones), and numbs his boredom, rage, and guilt with alcohol. When Egan and his crew are told to start taking orders directly from the CIA -- which selects its targets based not on personal profiles but patterns of activity -- the notion of a "good" kill becomes even more maddeningly abstract, and Egan's ability to comply with his superiors' directives reaches its breaking point.
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