I seen the movie, and couldn't ignore the moral damage this sniper experienced from his killing of foreigners simply protecting their own terra firma from invaders.
If the shoe were on the other foot?
If they were here in our neighborhoods going from house to house weeding out, oh say Christians, and they had a sniper on a roof, and your grandmother came out with an explosive ready to toss it, well you'd believe dead granny a hero.
And you probably wouldn't exactly enjoy some military from another land going thru your neighborhood, door to door.
It's so fucked-up.
They protect their homeland and we call ourselves hero's for invading in the name of, in the name of, well, whatever name you want to apply.
And they come out, including the weakest of the weak, defending their homeland, and we can't seem to grasp their goal for survival?
Yeah and sure, the movie looks great and acted really well, and much flag waving.
But does anyone realize what is really going on here?
We are naturally perceived the aggressor coming into their own back yards, and we can't understand their resistance?
Since when have we become so screwed up?
I mean, why are gun sales in the US going nuts, and our own citizens believe their own government is the enemy out to get them?
We fear us, they fear us. Something in common, perhaps?
The sniper was there to protect his men, US troops. All good and well.
But why are we even there in the first place?
When we were attacked on 911 by foreigners, we know how we felt to experience outside invasion from another land.
And why do you think so many of the soldiers asked to do the dirty work came back into society so messed up?
This story was true, and as successful as the sniper was, he came back totally screwed up and morally fell apart.
It was not until he became involved with the healing precess, and not the killing process, that he started to regain his moral sanity and ability to cope.
I'm not supporting Moore, he's probably just paving the road for some new film on the drawing board.
The issue is, maybe we should re-think before freely tossing around the word hero.
I truly doubt that ten year old assassin had anything to do with 911.
And the family that did try to help the American forces were eventually massacred by their own. Not so much of an unreasonable reaction.
After 911, when some Americans questioned our response and involvement for revenge, our own government security wasted little time in shutting them down.
Certainly questioning their motives.
So much for freedom of speech.
After this film ended, and people began leaving the theater, I hardly felt a chest busting sense of American patriotism.
I felt this misguided episode in American tragedy was little to celebrate.
Who really knows Clint Eastwood's intensions?
Clint created this same morality check theme in his western film, UNFORGIVEN.
But this film was no raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima type of victory.
It's pretty fucked up to believe killing some child with fears of foreign invaders coming into his home should qualify under the definition as American patriotism.
Point missed, the hero of the film, THE SNIPER, certainly did not think so.
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