American Sniper (2014)
Produced and Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Normally I do not fancy American military propaganda films but decided to give a go as it was directed by Dirty Harry himself. The academy also plays an important role of stirring national pride and international justifications by nominating these films in loads of categories.
This particular movie was no different except that if you notice carefully, the story kind of mocks the double standards of Americans practise in dealing with international affairs. When children all over the occupied territories are wailing day and night with hunger, homelessness and loss of piece of mind, the protagonist gets all riled up when his crying neonate is not attended to by the nurses in the nursery.
Just because of a piece of cloth and ideologies that supposedly save mankind but does not mean a thing to the man on the street, young men go to zones that they are not familiar with and probably not heard of before in their entire lives. They fight for glory for nation and race and for their efforts, they return in body bags, with post traumatic stress disorder or in a totally different state of mind for the society and family to put up with, as if the fold of flag that is handed to their next of kin, the state funeral, the 21 gun salute and financial help is going to replace their loss.
Of course, in this movie, Chris Kyle, a SEAL sniper, is reputed to have made quite a killing in his 4 tours of duty in Iraq, returns home a broken man. He pulls through his mental twist only to succumb to a bullet from a fellow disturbed veteran during one of his sessions at the shooting range.
Is all these worth it? Some corporations make mountains of cash trying to monger war and sell arms for lesser beings to kill themselves silly. And their own boys also the bear the brunt of their actions. I suppose the high standards of living that their own community has comes with a price!
Produced and Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Normally I do not fancy American military propaganda films but decided to give a go as it was directed by Dirty Harry himself. The academy also plays an important role of stirring national pride and international justifications by nominating these films in loads of categories.This particular movie was no different except that if you notice carefully, the story kind of mocks the double standards of Americans practise in dealing with international affairs. When children all over the occupied territories are wailing day and night with hunger, homelessness and loss of piece of mind, the protagonist gets all riled up when his crying neonate is not attended to by the nurses in the nursery.
Just because of a piece of cloth and ideologies that supposedly save mankind but does not mean a thing to the man on the street, young men go to zones that they are not familiar with and probably not heard of before in their entire lives. They fight for glory for nation and race and for their efforts, they return in body bags, with post traumatic stress disorder or in a totally different state of mind for the society and family to put up with, as if the fold of flag that is handed to their next of kin, the state funeral, the 21 gun salute and financial help is going to replace their loss.
Of course, in this movie, Chris Kyle, a SEAL sniper, is reputed to have made quite a killing in his 4 tours of duty in Iraq, returns home a broken man. He pulls through his mental twist only to succumb to a bullet from a fellow disturbed veteran during one of his sessions at the shooting range.
Is all these worth it? Some corporations make mountains of cash trying to monger war and sell arms for lesser beings to kill themselves silly. And their own boys also the bear the brunt of their actions. I suppose the high standards of living that their own community has comes with a price!
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