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Oscar has a problem, too much preference for biopics, biopics tend to highlight the "American spirit" and help stars win the actor. Therefore, some films of major film and television companies will specifically target the conservative characteristics of the judges to make films. This year's awards season this problem is even more prominent.
I think the movie "American Sniper" is more legendary and profound than the actual prototype. The whole movie is mainly adapted from the autobiography of Chris Kyle, which mainly describes his great achievements in the war, as well as the conflict between his family wife and participation in the war. In reality, Chris was not completely out of the war as in the movie after he was discharged from the army, he just went to the injury club to take care of his comrades. Instead, a company was established to provide training for military and law enforcement snipers. The deadliest marksman in reality, Chris Kyle, was murdered by a fellow he protected. Di Routh was a US soldier and participated in the Iraq War. After leaving the army, he was unemployed for a long time and suffered from post-traumatic stress synthesis. disease. He was killed by a mad comrade in arms. This paragraph was omitted from the movie, but a line of words was typed at the end of the film in an inexplicable manner.
This is the intention of director Clint Eastwood. This old tough guy and old cowboy must be unwilling to accept the ending of reality. This ending will subvert the heroism and American spirit in front of him. Hope his hero is a simple and direct cowboy, his behavior is only simple and direct patriotism. But he couldn't avoid the ending that has happened in reality, so he had to deal with it the weakest. How did the whole movie grow into a hero, how to fight off the opponents of the Olympic champion, and how to finally choose the family, making this controversial subject matter very safe and in line with mainstream American values.
In fact, Chris Kyle also has a nickname-Ramadi Demon. Ramadi is a city in central Iraq. Chris killed 255 people there. He is the sniper who killed the most enemies in the history of the United States. The first time he killed a man was to snipe a woman who took out a grenade from her arms. The movie did not evade this, but strengthened it. The first person killed in the movie was a woman’s child, a eleventh-two. Year old child. In the movie, the comrades next to him were asked to plead for him, "If you are not sure that you are a terrorist, do not shoot lightly, otherwise you will be sent to a military court" to prove that they did not kill innocent people indiscriminately. Afterwards, in the dormitory, another comrade-in-arms did psychological work for him-this is your job, you protected the comrade-in-arms.
The film intersperses the narrative of the war with Chris's family life. On the one hand, it contrasts the cruelty of the war, and on the other hand, it reveals the pressure and choices Chris faced. But from the perspective of a non-American audience, a thorough outsider, this is a war of completely unequal strength. After the American soldiers have fought for a while, they can go home on vacation and live a family life. They can't bear it mentally and can return to a peaceful and happy family life. For the women, children and locals who were killed by him, war is inevitable. In order to make all of this reasonable, the film started from 9/11. After 9/11, the patriotic Chris went to join the SEALs to wipe out al Qaeda. I don’t want to evaluate whether this war is just, but at least Chris shouldn’t be a hero tempered by the war. He is more of a tragic character. The movie does not show his tragic side, whether it is a psychological problem. It was his weaker brother who expressed his disgust on the battlefield, but these performances stopped at the battlefield, murder, and the test of Chris's humanity, and at the same time, he used his comrades' affirmation of his protector god status to give him psychological comfort. In short, there is no firm anti-war, but it just reflects the helplessness to war.
This was not the case in Hollywood before 911. If it was before 911, their screen hero would not be allowed to kill a child in the movie, even if he held a missile in his hand, it would not weaken Chris’s death to a single line, at least it would. There is a general length to show how the veteran with post-traumatic stress syndrome murdered their patron saint.
More than ten years have passed. Bin Laden has been shot to death, and Al Qaeda has almost surrendered. But 9/11 has changed the United States, and it has also changed American movies. It seems that they can never go back. But the terrorist attacks are far from stopping. France has also experienced its own "911" recently. I hope it won't cause more wars. Because it is obvious that war cannot eliminate terrorist attacks.
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