![]() However, Shaw pulls out what is believed to be a bomb detonator, claiming to have a drone missile worth of explosives in the briefcase he brought with him and placed on the kitchen table where Wistin's wife and son are. This information confirms Wistin's suspicions about who Shaw really is and what he is there for.Ĭonfronting Shaw in private, Wistin makes a motion to call the police. Wistin then asks for the details of his work one year prior to the date. Receiving a call, Wistin excuses himself to his office, where he learns of the leak. While having dinner with the Wistins, it is revealed through dinner table conversation that it is the one-year anniversary of the death of Shaw's wife and daughter at the hands of a drone operator-who is implicitly implied to have been Wistin. The two enter Wistin's home to discuss the price of the boat while the CIA track down Shaw as the source of a leak that privately exposed Wistin and the top secret work he and others do as contract drone operators. The boat was Wistin's father's that he was given when his father could no longer care for it. Shaw claims to be interested in buying a boat Wistin had displayed in the front of his home for sale. While home, Wistin catches Shaw standing outside of his home and goes out to investigate. Shortly thereafter, near a park, Shaw himself evades the capture of a trailing man.īreaking down in grief after packing the last of his father's belongings and donating his clothes, Wistin returns home. Shaw captures incriminating images of Ellen engaging in an affair with another man. ![]() While Wistin goes off to pack the rest of his father's belongings up from a home for the elderly, Wistin's wife, Ellen, is followed by Shaw. ![]() Wistin and his family, particularly his distant son, are dealing with the loss of Wistin's father, for whom Wistin is struggling to write a eulogy. One year later, on the anniversary of the drone strike, Imir Shaw finds himself at the home of Neil Wistin, a contract drone operator for the CIA. SECRETS! SADNESS! PAIN! RACISM! REVENGE! And that’s because, like the antagonist of the film, the plot is putting in just the minimum amount of required effort to make a vague point about drone warfare and keeping one’s hands clean in war.In March 2016, a drone strike in Pakistan kills the intended target but it also results in collateral damage, taking the lives of several innocents who found themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. The writing in each scene feels like the film is throwing a brick at the audience. The problem with a setup like this is that it’s effectively a lifetime movie with a cast far too talented for the material. Shaw has a mysterious briefcase with him and a story about a dead wife and daughter in Pakistan. Shaw asks to buy the boat, and Wistin asks him to stay for dinner with the whole family. A Muslim man from Pakistan, Imir Shaw (Patrick Saboungui), walks past the Wistins’ driveway where Neil has a boat up for sale. There are racists everywhere in the Wistins’ neighborhood. Shane feels bitter about having witnessed his grandfather’s death alone while Neil was at work. Ellen is having an affair, and the man she’s involved with wants to increase the commitment. Neil’s father died recently, and he has to write the eulogy. The film follows drone pilot Neil Wistin (Sean Bean) and his wife Ellen (Mary McCormack) and son Shane (Maxwell Haynes). Drone on the other hand is a film where the perpetrators of drone strikes are threatened with their actions coming back to haunt them. Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky was next and offered a procedural look at the international decision making that goes into drone strikes. Jason Bourque’s latest film, Drone, is an unfortunately boring addition to recent films interrogating the impacts of drone warfare on the pilots and decision makers.Īndrew Niccol’s Good Kill was first and worked as a character study of a drone pilot with massive access to surveilling evil but a very limited ability to act.
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