We are watching "Eagle Eye," via Netflix. Stuff goes on and on and on. Honestly, it makes me think of nothing so much as that guy in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." The one who did all the fancy swordplay for so long that Indiana Jones got exasperated and just shot him.
The moviemakers would have you worry about a future -- or maybe a present -- where every single thing you do or say is recorded and you can be manipulated by what the government knows about you. In "Eagle Eye," the government's master computer (or is it a mistress -- it has a woman's voice) gets revenge after some advice she gave went unheeded. Her goal is to destroy the administration. But instead of just using some straightforward assassination, she uses endless swordplay. She not only manipulates people via every cellphone in sight, she takes over every single electronic device in the country and every electric high line -- anything current, I guess -- and uses same to maximum effect in car crashes. Talk about RAM!
You know, the two preceding evenings we watched "Hitler: The Rise of Evil." Real people who are given open-ended power and who convince enough of their citizens to follow them heedlessly, with dreams of great glory, that's a lot more terrifying.
The moviemakers would have you worry about a future -- or maybe a present -- where every single thing you do or say is recorded and you can be manipulated by what the government knows about you. In "Eagle Eye," the government's master computer (or is it a mistress -- it has a woman's voice) gets revenge after some advice she gave went unheeded. Her goal is to destroy the administration. But instead of just using some straightforward assassination, she uses endless swordplay. She not only manipulates people via every cellphone in sight, she takes over every single electronic device in the country and every electric high line -- anything current, I guess -- and uses same to maximum effect in car crashes. Talk about RAM!
You know, the two preceding evenings we watched "Hitler: The Rise of Evil." Real people who are given open-ended power and who convince enough of their citizens to follow them heedlessly, with dreams of great glory, that's a lot more terrifying.