What you may need to know:
1. Drone pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) is troubled by the murky ethics of fighting a disconnected war.
2. Hawke and director Andrew Niccol also worked together on Lord of War and the brilliant but terribly nineties Gattaca (1997).
3. Here’s hoping that this is a little more balanced than Uncle Clint’s American Sniper (2014). Rock, flag and eagle!!!
4. Brainless YouTube comment #1: “You have to be a special kind of pussy to get PTSD from being a drone pilot. It’s like getting PTSD from playing the Sims.”
5. Brainless YouTube comment #2: “Eventually, we’re going to have drone soldiers. That would be cool.” Oh Internet… you so crazy.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Drone to bouts of anxiety.
Release Date: April 10
(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
The last time Ethan Hawke was in a movie about flying… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_%281993_film%29
But but but does his wife ever get to the 90s cocktail party she’s dressed for?
Drone pilots are apparently much more susceptible to PTSD as they are witness in hi def and sometimes horrifically close, close enough to see the faces of their targets to their actions whereas typical pilots drop and fly and rarely if ever get to see the consequences of what they do.
yeah its like nam all over again