From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like asingle needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.
It's all ostensibly part of a master plan, as is his requesting Elizabeth Banks' beleaguered negotiator, but it feels as if the filmmakers have tried to stuff the plots of too many different movies into asingle casing that's already overflowing with eye-rolling improbabilities.