American Sniper is a the last Clint Eastwood movie, nominated for no less than 6 Oscars. It is a war movie, a biography of “the most lethal sniper of US Army’s history”. You remember the 2009 Oscar award for Best Film, Kathryn Bigelow‘s The Hurt Locker, isn’t it? Iraq, war, bombs, danger, warrior’s psychical condition, etc? It was neutral, and it won because of that, even if Avatar was much better and much entertaining. I felt it hadn’t “message”, you know? It wasn’t a positive thing, it was too blunt. Now? What Clint Eastwood is doing with this one, actually he already did, is to present an unilateral view on war, patriotism and terrorism.
The original Chris Kyle.
[source: washingtonpost.com]
“They’re savages we’re fighting, I hate them all!”, declared Chris Kyle, the American Sniper, aka “The Legend”, with over 160 kills on record. I really don’t know what exactly Clint Eastwood wanted to express with this romanced version of his sniper. This movie came in a moment America wants to go to war again. The public has to be prepared, psychologically prepared that terrorism isn’t gone, that those savages have to be terminated once and for all.
American Sniper – Bradley Cooper and Kyle Gallner
[source for all the rest of pics: imdb.com]
This is an appalling “masterpiece”, showing a killer mentality, justified by patriotism. A la guerre comme à la guerre, everything works if you win. But what happens there? What is all the movie about? It’s about killing the “savages”. The guys have no god, they train their kids to throw grenades or to use the bazooka. It’s insane, they have to be terminated. “The Butcher”, the second in command to the al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is killing even the Iraqi civilians to terrorize them, to keep them away from collaboration with “the enemy”.
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
Bradley Cooper depicts Kyle insanely good. His acting now can bring him an Oscar for Best Actor. He personifies a “derranged” member of this society. This is the perfect criminal, who kills without closing his eyes and has legally a gun, a high precision rifle to hunt “enemies”. He had difficulties during his training, he found hard to shoot at lifeless targets. He liked “them breathing”. To do what he did, he had to be special. Because one has a conscience even in time of war, you have to leave it home when you go to combat.
American Sniper – Sienna Miller
Chris Kyle was violent even at “home”, but he had to justify his violence somehow, his taste for thrill, and the army gave him what he needed. Eastwood hasn’t complicated the story too much with the real life of his character, he let him be just the American Hero, who helps you when you attack civilian sites. Eventually, he even killed his archenemy, an Iraqi sniper, presumably a former Olympic Champion, revenging his fallen fellows.
It is obviously that the war is far from end. This Iraqi war hidden objectives are further away from the handlers, otherwise they would leave after they executed Saddam’s double.
American Sniper – Poster
This is a movie with six Oscar nominations, but the most important are Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. I didn’t like it, even if it was perfectly made to prove something.
Directed by Clint Eastwood, Produced by Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan, Written by Jason Hall, Based on “American Sniper” by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice, Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, 132 minutes, a 2014 release, 7.6 imdb rate out of ten.
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