La realtà oltre la cornice dello schermo: Il diritto di uccidere di Hood

The essay analyzes the film Eye in the Sky (Hood, 2015), in which two different media devices coexist: the cinema screen and video surveillance monitors. The movie portrays a military operation conducted with a drone while it reconstructs that reality, inhabited by flesh-and-blood beings, ignored and hidden by the war vision machines. Gavin Hood stages a conflict between two different technical and perceptual regimes, assigning to the cinema a central role in the reconstruction of that missing image that the representation of contemporary conflicts has relegated to the off-screen.