Hello Friday: Eye in the Sky and The Play Grounded

The last film I saw was Eye in the Sky which approaches the theme of replacing pilot aircraft with drones and the moral, psychological and ethical questions that this option brings. 

The advances in technology are challenging the traditional concepts of "war" or "fight", especially if we're targeting our enemies from a remote place. It's true that this will mean less boots on the ground but what happens when the lives of innocent people are mistakenly targeted?  What is the moral, psychological and ethical impact of taking a decision based on an estimated risk, for instance, the risk of an innocent little girl being able to survive or not?

Alan Rickman who died in January, is phenomenal; quoting Helen Mirren: "Alan Rickman's final film is one he would be proud of".

As soon as I left the cinema, I started having a flash back of a workshop I attended last year at the National Theatre. At the time, Lucy Kerbel and her guest speakers conducted an insightful and thought-provoking talk based on the book 100 Plays Great Plays for Women. We briefly explored a couple of plays but there's one that I never forgot. It's a relatively recent story written by

 George Brant and it's called Grounded which follows the same themes that we can find in the film  Eye in the Sky. 

Anne Hathaway as a fighter pilot in the play Grounded, 2015

Here you have the story of Grounded. 
 

An unexpected pregnancy ends an ace fighter pilot’s career in the sky. Reassigned to operate military drones from a windowless trailer outside Las Vegas, she hunts terrorists by day and returns to her family each night. As the pressure to track a high-profile target mounts, the boundaries begin to blur between the desert in which she lives and the one she patrols half a world away.