Are You Guys Blind?

I just got back from seeing Eagle Eye and was completely blown away. I would consider it one of my top five movies of the year. It had me at the end of my seat almost the entire time, except for a few moments when the action dies down for some character development. Being a student of screenwriting, you come realize these technical points and will pan or praise a movie on how well you bought into it.

Well, I completely bought into the whole danger sign being flashed to us one cat-and-mouse chase after another. Maybe it's just where I'm at as a human being or what conspiracies float my boat, but the fact that technology can progress to this point is scary.

I was amazed that when I got home and read the overall feeling for the movie is somewhat negative from the critics. All I can say is, "ARE YOU BLIND!"

The general consensus is the movie is stupid and mind boggling and how unrealistic the story line is. Isn't the whole point behind the cinema going experience a suspension of disbelief for the purpose of being entertained or challenged? How can you not see that this movie is a treatise on technology and government control of it. I guess people would rather be entertained with stupid slapstick then challenged by the truth.

I think it's because people are generally blind to what's going on around them. They don't want to be told the truth. In fact, they go so far as to deny the feasibility of the truth and the possibility that there lives are heading in the wrong direction.

I won't bore you with what I got out of the movie because I would just be evoking another conspiracy theory. But to deny any inkling of truth and panning a movie because you think the script was far fetched goes to show how blind we really are.