hooray for hollywood- will mathews

American sniper-

A fantastic film, the kind that when it ended even though I was at it with a lot of my friends, no one spoke there just wasn’t anything to say, you were left speechless. The film had everything, intense actions scenes, comedy, love, and tragedy. Knowing it’s based off a true story leaves you in awe. The main character Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) is the deadliest sniper in American history, through his eyes you see him achieve amazing accomplishments as he kills hundreds of enemies all to protect his fellow soldiers. But as this is shown you see the horrors of war, like when he has to watch a child is brutally executed, kill a child who threatens the life of the men he is watching, and finally watch his good friends die. But what the movie leaves you with more than anything is not the horror that war itself is, but how the horrors stick with you when you get home, Chris is always detached when he returns state side. He is only able to finally cope with this by helping fellow soldiers who have been hurt in Iraq, because to him this is a way to make up for the men he couldn’t save while overseas. The movie ends with Chris getting in car with a disturbed looking veteran he is going to try and help… this man ends up shooting Chris and killing him. Showing that the things war does leave men horrible disturbed.