IL DIRITTO DI UCCIDERE

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IL DIRITTO DI UCCIDERE Movie

2015

(7,3 out of 10)
Drammatico (Thriller|Guerra)
1 h 43 min - 103 min
Directed by Gavin Hood

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	Faisa Hassan
	Aisha Takow
	Armaan Haggio
	Helen Mirren

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Il colonnello Powell guida a distanza una squadra di militari antiterrorismo nella cattura, in territorio kenyano, di una cittadina inglese che ha rinnegato il proprio Paese per il fondamentalismo islamico di Al Shaabab. Quando l'esercito, servendosi di droni, scopre la verità sui piani dei terroristi l'urgenza di fermarli con ogni mezzo diviene una priorità. Ma nei piani alti nessuno vuole prendersi la responsabilità di un attacco letale e dei suoi danni collaterali.   Quasi una rappresentazione teatrale, in cui su un tema destinato a dividere vengono esposti i diversi punti di vista. I tre poteri dello stato - militare, giuridico e politico - si trovano a dover prendere una decisione in nome del male minore. Qualcuno innocente, in ogni caso, si farà male. Hood non fa sconti, esibendo cadaveri tra le macerie senza morbosità, ma con il piglio verista di chi vuole ricostruire con la massima fedeltà una vicenda esemplare. Sulla guerra che è e sulla guerra che sarà, soprattutto.  Se Michael Bay ha scelto di concentrarsi sull'eroismo dei riservisti e sugli errori dei burocrati e Andrew Niccol sul dramma umano di chi gioca al videogame della guerra uccidendo esseri umani in carne e ossa, a Gavin Hood interessa il dilemma morale. È cinema antico il suo, che della contemporaneità utilizza la moltiplicazione degli schermi e dei dispositivi o la prospettiva del drone; il resto è classicità pura, affidata a due interpreti straordinari. Helen Mirren sceglie il cuore in inverno del colonnello Powell, consapevole della crudeltà di alcune scelte ma dedita esclusivamente al raggiungimento del proprio obiettivo. Alan Rickman, invece, nella sua ultima interpretazione, regala al generale Benson un assaggio della sua inconfondibile ironia british.  Senza negare mai la propria funzione di film che si presta all'apertura di un dibattito, il regista riesce umilmente a rinverdire i fasti di una forma di cinema troppo spesso trascurata. L'anacronistico film-caso di studio, figlio de La parola ai giurati di Sidney Lumet o, per restare in tema bellico, di Orizzonti di gloria di Kubrick, si riconfigura come dialogo socratico: una meticolosa ricostruzione dei fatti destinata a toccare dei nervi - politici, comportamentali, etici - scoperti e a rendere problematica una presa di posizione chiara che prescinda dalle ragioni dell'"altra parte". E il fatto che la sensazione di imperdonabile indecisione di fronte al dubbio morale che attanaglia sia ribaltata dallo schermo allo spettatore è fortemente voluto. Elementi che, uniti alle interpretazioni inevitabilmente impeccabili di Rickman e Helen Mirren, elevano Il diritto di uccidere al di sopra dell'aurea mediocritas in cui rischia, colpevolmente, di finire relegato. Peccato solo per un epilogo che mostra ciò che è superfluo mostrare, sbilanciando irreparabilmente l'equilibrio dialogico fin lì esemplare.

Before Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) speaks to the Attorney General on video feed, she is incorrectly introduced by Lt Gen Frank Benson (Alan Rickman) as "Captain". <br>------------------------<br><br>During the meeting at the cabinet room, where a group of British officials discussing the legality of the drone attack, at a certain point of the discussion, the minister takes off his jacket, and remains in his shirt. a big sweat stain is evident under his arms pit, as a sign of his tension. however, the stain disappears throughout the rest of the discussion. <br>------------------------<br><br>Towards the end of the movie, it is day time (possibly late afternoon) when Alia (in Nairobi, Kenya) is taken to the hospital. Drone pilots Steve Watts and Carrie Gerson (in Nevada, USA) leave the control cabin at what is supposedly sunrise. Col. Powell (in London, UK) leaves at the same time but is shown driving at night. It should have been around noon in London. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the UK Foreign Secretary is going from an arms exhibition to his hotel room which is said to be in Singapore, mountains can be seen in the background behind the hotel lobby. Singapore does not have mountains close to the city center and suburbs. <br>------------------------<br><br>As viewed from the satellite onto the Eastleigh roads, there is a visible 'STOP' written on the road, there are no 'STOP' signs drawn on Kenyan roads. <br>------------------------<br><br>The pilot says the "time of flight" for the missiles is 50 seconds, a Hellfire flies at 450 m/s which would mean the launch would have taken place approximately 20 km away from the target. The actual range of a Hellfire is 8 km. <br>------------------------<br><br>In an early scene, Second Lieutenant Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) tells Carrie Gershon (Phoebe Fox) that he's been a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) pilot for two years. Second Lieutenant is the lowest entry level rank for U.S. Air Force (USAF) pilots, so unless he was passed over for promotion, this is extremely unlikely given that USAF Second Lieutenants only spend 18 months in that rank before being promoted to First Lieutenant. <br>------------------------<br><br>The Reaper drone cannot hover; when loitering over a target, it flies in a circle. Yet the camera angle from the Reaper's feed never moves once settled on the target house. <br>------------------------<br><br>the drone is flying at 20,000 feet (6096 meters) and the missile travels at 450 meters per second, then the right time is 14 to 15 seconds, not 50. <br>------------------------<br><br>Alan Rickman is wearing his parachute wings on his uniform chest above his medals. Qualified parachutists serving in the British Army wear their parachute badge on their right sleeve at the shoulder. Those who do not serve with a parachute unit are permitted to wear a parachute badge without wings (known as a lightbulb) on their left sleeve. Serving personnel who qualified as Special Forces parachutists are allowed a different badge. During the Second World War, they wore this badge on their chest above their medals. The badge shown on Alan Rickman's uniform appears to be the Mess Dress Para Wings Qualification Badge. It would still be worn on the shoulder, not on the chest. Only pilots wings are worn on the chest above medals. The confusion appears to be that American personnel wear their parachute qualification badge on their chest. The British do not. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the Pearl Harbor base is shown, two F-14 Tomcats fly past. The F-14 is out of service as of 2006. <br>------------------------<br><br>A demonstration can be seen at the arms fair supposedly held in Singapore. Singapore does not allow demonstrations. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the scene when the girl is selling bread, the woman who bought the first bread was told the cost of the bread is 45 shillings, she hands in a note and doesn't get change. Kenya has no note currency of 45 Kenya Shillings, She would have gotten change of coins. The Kenya number plates start with K... and has three numeric and ends with an alphabet e.g KBA 123 S. <br>------------------------<br><br>Although high-flying cameras can pan, tilt, & zoom; and they're stabilized; and they have very high resolution - they still suffer from poor detail due to atmospheric conditions like dust, clouds, and temperature differences in the air which make long shots (like 20,000 feet) fuzzier than shown. <br>------------------------<br><br>These are some of the very incorrect GPS co-ordinates, shown in the trailer and in the movie - - -<br><br>-1.1503, 36.5907-1.1536, 36.5143-1.1621, 36.5140-1.1505, 36.5908-1.1610, 36.5912-1.1611, 36.5912<br><br>These are confirmed by google as the correct GPS co-ordinates for the stated locations in the movie - - -<br><br>Parklands, Nairobi, Kenya, GPS -1.2609625,36.808004 - - -<br><br>Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya, GPS -1.2730409,36.8392607 - - -<br><br>Nairobi, Kenya, GPS -1.283249, 36.816663 - - - <br>------------------------<br><br>In the HUD screen the weapons inventory show 2 AGM 116, the correct designation for a Hellfire is AGM 114. <br>------------------------<br><br>Alan Rickman's character's medals ribbon are in the wrong order. The third medal on the upper row (for Afghanistan) should be his last campaign medal before the blue, white and red medal (Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal). Also his medal ribbons are in two rows of 5 when they should be in three rows of 2,4 and 4.<br><br>His aide's medal ribbons are also incorrectly placed on his uniform. They should be wholly over the breast pocket. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the US Air Force servicemen are outside no one is wearing a cover. US military personnel always wear a hat when outside. <br>------------------------<br><br>Lt. Colonel Ed Walsh (Gavin Hood) incorrectly pronounces the words "wind-up the pilot" however only when correctly pronounced "wind-up the pilot" does the screenwriter achieve the intended meaning of "to get someone excited" i.e. "wind someone up" - - - the word "wind" needed to be correctly pronounced as the phrasal verb "why-nd" - - - unfortunately "wind" was incorrectly pronounced by Lt. Colonel Ed Walsh (Gavin Hood) as the noun "win-d" meaning "a current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially with enough strength to be felt" - - - NOTE TO IMDB STAFF Unfortunately imdb.com does not accept any of the special Unicode Characters that are required to be used to correctly pronounce "wind", SO I HAVE IMPROVISED - - - <br>------------------------<br><br>At the end of the movie when the militia are removing the machine gun from the back of the technical, the one crewman lifts the base post the gun was sitting on and throws it aside. The base post would have been welded (or at the very least bolted) to the bed of the truck. <br>------------------------<br><br>In all the views of the machine gun mounted in the back of the pick-up driven by Somali militia, a side view of the weapon shows nothing inside - no bolt, no mechanism, empty. <br>------------------------<br><br>The mechanical flying beetle camera is impossible. The smallest working true ornithopter is birdlike, with a wingspan of several feet. The beetle-like hard wing covers would be dead weight, and would interfere with lift. Beetle wings are much larger than the beetle's body - they fold before being covered. <br>------------------------<br><br>After the first explosion of Hellfire people visible through the smoke slowly go up and down on two parallel streets as if nothing just had happened. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the first missile explodes, debris is shown in slow-motion flying up towards the camera. If the camera was at 20,000 feet (as stated), then the debris would not appear to approach it (even if zoomed-in). The fact that it does is either poor CGI technique, or it shows that the camera was much closer to the ground. <br>------------------------<br><br>