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#AmericanSniper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k3u9ay1gs
Bradley Cooper has earned himself another Oscar nomination for his role as Chris Kyle in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, and since it made some ridiculous and unexpected money at the box office, I'm here with a new. The movie everyone is talking about. Chris Kyle was nothing more than a Texan man who wanted to become a cowboy, but in his thirties he found out that maybe his life needed something different, something where he could express his real talent, something that could help America in its fight against terrorism. So he joined the SEALs in order to become a sniper. After marrying, Kyle and the other members of the team are called for their first tour of Iraq. Kyle's struggle isn't with his missions, but about his relationship with the reality of the war and, once returned at home, how he manages to handle it with his urban life, his wife and kids.
A lot had been said about Chris Kyle, and what he really did once he was home for good, the film is based on his book. I don't know much about him, so I'm gonna keep the reality separate and just analyze the movie. It's fucking good.
Bradley Cooper certainly knocks it out of the park with his performance, he never rings a false note and he is completely engaging. Chris Kyle in the first act of the movie is portrayed and written as nothing but just a guy with some strong values and honor for his country. That incredibly tense scene that makes up most of that first trailer, that's how the movie begins. The film, for at least the first half, bounces back and forth between him overseas and him back in Texas, first meeting his wife, training for the Navy SEALS etc. It's not confusing or disorienting, Eastwood pretty much makes it all work. Sienna Miller, playing Taya Kyle, does a very nice job as well - though she is the typical, "Come home, I miss you, be careful" wife who waits at home for her husband to return safely. She's pregnant, they end up having two kids and she's left alone with them while hubby is away in Iraq. When he does return home after each tour, she does point out to him how this whole thing is slowly squeezing the life and humanity out of him. Which it is. And, the movie makes it impossible for you not to feel for her as he struggles to deal with her husband being away for so long, and not knowing whether or not he'll even make it back. Chris often calls her, while he is on duty, patrolling and riding into combat - which, if this is true, displays a large amount of stupidity on Kyle's part - and when a signal drops, or, gunfire breaks out and Chris takes his attention away from her, you're left having to watch her freak the fuck out, and it is painful to witness. Those scenes in particular really made me dislike this character. Even though they do make a point, several times, of demonstrating just how great of a sniper this dude is and was, some decisions he made during the movie did piss me off.
As I mentioned previously, Chris Kyle's mental/emotional state is absolutely tested more and more as the film goes on. He won't admit it, of course, either because he's just ignorant and doesn't understand he's suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or because he's just trying too hard to be the big manly man who is always totally fine and ready for anything. Probably both. And he just cannot seem to snap out of this war-comatose state he is in when he comes home, granted, it would mess anyone up - although the whole point of the movie kind of falls apart a bit when the film is over. We would think that this was a story about a man struggling with the war inside of himself, what this Iraq war is doing to him and if he is going to be able to make it out of both battlefields alive. But, the last 15 minutes of so of the movie seems to embellish quite a bit. Maybe too much.
It may leave many entertained and moved, which it did mostly for me, it's totally a good film. Definitely Eastwood's best in years.
Related articles across the webUsa: ' American Sniper Killer Found Guilty of Capital Murder 'Video Connections Increasingly Important For PsychiatryLiving with Purpose: A Conversation with U.S. Navy SEAL and The Mission Continues Founder and CEO Eric Greitens'Upward Spiral': Iraq war veteran runs for 24 hours to fight depression, bullying smj12.com/?p=931
#AmericanSniper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k3u9ay1gs
Bradley Cooper has earned himself another Oscar nomination for his role as Chris Kyle in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, and since it made some ridiculous and unexpected money at the box office, I'm here with a new. The movie everyone is talking about. Chris Kyle was nothing more than a Texan man who wanted to become a cowboy, but in his thirties he found out that maybe his life needed something different, something where he could express his real talent, something that could help America in its fight against terrorism. So he joined the SEALs in order to become a sniper. After marrying, Kyle and the other members of the team are called for their first tour of Iraq. Kyle's struggle isn't with his missions, but about his relationship with the reality of the war and, once returned at home, how he manages to handle it with his urban life, his wife and kids.
A lot had been said about Chris Kyle, and what he really did once he was home for good, the film is based on his book. I don't know much about him, so I'm gonna keep the reality separate and just analyze the movie. It's fucking good.
Bradley Cooper certainly knocks it out of the park with his performance, he never rings a false note and he is completely engaging. Chris Kyle in the first act of the movie is portrayed and written as nothing but just a guy with some strong values and honor for his country. That incredibly tense scene that makes up most of that first trailer, that's how the movie begins. The film, for at least the first half, bounces back and forth between him overseas and him back in Texas, first meeting his wife, training for the Navy SEALS etc. It's not confusing or disorienting, Eastwood pretty much makes it all work. Sienna Miller, playing Taya Kyle, does a very nice job as well - though she is the typical, "Come home, I miss you, be careful" wife who waits at home for her husband to return safely. She's pregnant, they end up having two kids and she's left alone with them while hubby is away in Iraq. When he does return home after each tour, she does point out to him how this whole thing is slowly squeezing the life and humanity out of him. Which it is. And, the movie makes it impossible for you not to feel for her as he struggles to deal with her husband being away for so long, and not knowing whether or not he'll even make it back. Chris often calls her, while he is on duty, patrolling and riding into combat - which, if this is true, displays a large amount of stupidity on Kyle's part - and when a signal drops, or, gunfire breaks out and Chris takes his attention away from her, you're left having to watch her freak the fuck out, and it is painful to witness. Those scenes in particular really made me dislike this character. Even though they do make a point, several times, of demonstrating just how great of a sniper this dude is and was, some decisions he made during the movie did piss me off.
As I mentioned previously, Chris Kyle's mental/emotional state is absolutely tested more and more as the film goes on. He won't admit it, of course, either because he's just ignorant and doesn't understand he's suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or because he's just trying too hard to be the big manly man who is always totally fine and ready for anything. Probably both. And he just cannot seem to snap out of this war-comatose state he is in when he comes home, granted, it would mess anyone up - although the whole point of the movie kind of falls apart a bit when the film is over. We would think that this was a story about a man struggling with the war inside of himself, what this Iraq war is doing to him and if he is going to be able to make it out of both battlefields alive. But, the last 15 minutes of so of the movie seems to embellish quite a bit. Maybe too much.
It may leave many entertained and moved, which it did mostly for me, it's totally a good film. Definitely Eastwood's best in years.
Related articles across the webUsa: ' American Sniper Killer Found Guilty of Capital Murder 'Video Connections Increasingly Important For PsychiatryLiving with Purpose: A Conversation with U.S. Navy SEAL and The Mission Continues Founder and CEO Eric Greitens'Upward Spiral': Iraq war veteran runs for 24 hours to fight depression, bullying smj12.com/?p=931