User blog:Hermione Chase/Why American Sniper is an Awful Movie

Just recently, a movie known as American Sniper came out in theaters. For those of you who don’t know much about this film, it follows Chris Kyle during his deployment in Iraq. The movie is particularly clearly a propagandist movie.

It portrays nearly all aspects of the movie negatively. There were distinct, disgusting attempts to inspire patriotism and Islamophobia.

For one, Chris Kyle is a monster.

According to his memoir, Kyle was essentially obsessed with murder. He described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.”

(Of course, being a part of war means that you have to put yourself in that kind of mindset, otherwise you’ll hate yourself, you wouldn’t be able to live with yourself. But crap, Chris is just saying he enjoys murder. Soldiers shouldn’t enjoy murder—they should just feel that is something that they have to do.)

Anyway, this just gives a bad image to our soldiers, who I doubt (well, hope) are nothing like this. It takes only one stain to ruin the entire shirt—this is particularly relevant to the Middle East who are now nicknamed the Terrorists of the world because of a couple of homicidal, psycho Muslims who now represent the entire religion. Perfect!

Speaking of Muslims, let’s talk about the alleged villains of the movie: the Iraqis, the Middle East, the Muslims, the Arabs.

Islam.

The Iraqis are depicted so awfully. There are terrorist Iraqi men, women, children. While the terrorists are the seemingly intended villains of the movie, the intent goes beyond the terrorists; the movie’s effect was not hatred towards terrorists, but just Middle Easterns.

Just Muslims.