"Eye In The Sky"

Friday night at the Tower Theater, I saw the movie "Eye in the Sky", with Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, and Alan Rickman in his last acting appearance.

What a great movie! Loved it! Full of moral complications. And no one is better at registering moral complications than Aaron Paul!

I particularly liked the compromised position of Sergeant Saddiq. In my job as an air quality consultant, I hold a position reminiscent to Saddiq's - I calculate concentrations; he calculates CDEs - and so I empathized with his dilemma for days.

I like the summary at this blog:

"Babou Ceesay as Sergeant Mushtaq Saddiq, who is diplomatically blackmailed into fudging Collateral Damage Estimates (CDE), internalises and ‘cottonises’ the proverbial sledge-hammer moral blow he receives, to perfection."

Here is a part of Saddiq's problem....