Cole Smithey dissects with surgical precision both the simple mind of the late Chris Kyle and the manipulators pulling his strings.
http://www.colesmithey.com/reviews/2015/01/american-sniper.html
Really a fantastic review and absolutely worth reading in full. It's a shame knavefuck hasn't been around in ages. He'd dig it the most.
U.S. soldiers have a lot in common with religious zealots; their blind faith enables them to kill without question. Chris Kyle sported a blood-red Crusader cross tattoo to make his Christian faith obvious to those around him. He worships at a bloody altar. In “American Sniper” hero worship is everything. Chris Kyle is nicknamed Legend. We hear the tag a lot throughout the film. “Savages” is the epithet applied to the Iraqi freedom fighters that oppose their US occupiers in once-vibrant cities that are now reduced to rubble
Chris Kyle’s “first kill” is a child soldier whose mother passes him a grenade to throw at a crew of heavily armed American soldiers stationed around an armored security vehicle. How and why does it occur that the film’s intended American audience doesn’t choose to empathize with the brave Iraqi mother and child whose military-aged male relatives and friends have all been killed or hauled off to prison?
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How would you respond if you were put in a similar situation, in which most of your town’s buildings had been leveled by foreign occupiers who can’t even speak your language and yet kick in your doors at 5am to violate your every mode of dignity? History has proven time again and time again exactly how you would respond, just like the desperate mother and son that we see Chris Kyle kill with single shots from his well-hidden sniper’s position. Clearly, he was not a student of history.
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In his book, Chris Kyle said that he was “not a fan of politics.” He failed to see, however, that he was its victim...Throughout the film, Chris Kyle repeats his vociferous desire to protect his fellow soldiers, unrepentant bullies like him, whom he mistakes for guardians of America. He talks as if he is the oppressed freedom fighter doing battle with occupiers on his own home soil. Talk about twisted and confused.
http://www.colesmithey.com/reviews/2015/01/american-sniper.html
Really a fantastic review and absolutely worth reading in full. It's a shame knavefuck hasn't been around in ages. He'd dig it the most.