Mar 4, 2019
What's so bad about drone bombing? Besides, well, everything about it. Ethan is trying to figure that out, while also trying to prevent the absolute decay of his immortal soul, in the 2014 film Good Kill.
Zack Bond returns to discuss this Andrew Niccol-directed film about a drone pilot whose conscience is awakened after he kills civilians in Afghanistan from a box in Las Vegas. The film is available on Netflix and is worth checking out, even if you already know drone bombing should be a war crime. January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, and Bruce Greenwood costar.
The poems read at the top of the program, 'War with Computers' and 'Twelve Hour Shifts' are from Reaper (2017) by Jill McDonough.
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