Inglorious Bastards

Rating: 1/10 (3 September 2015)

For those of you who have seen the Quentin Tarantino film 'Inglorious Bastards', you will be familiar with the Nazi film in the end part of the film where Daniel Brühl's character becomes a war hero after he killed at least 250 enemies in three days. Because of his exploits, Joseph Goebbels decided to turn his exploits into a propaganda film, called Nation's Pride, in which Zoller stars as himself. He was nicknamed by his comrades "German Sergeant York". Now back to American Sniper, which is an American film, which follows the life of Kyle, who became the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history with 255 kills from four tours in the Iraq War, 160 of which were officially confirmed by the Department of Defence. Now, does anyone see the similarity between the two? Essentially my point is that, the film American Sniper, is no better than a fictional Nazi proper gander film, both films are based on one man killing hundreds of people and being praised by their country for doing so. I do not understand why any country would want to celebrate the life of man man and commemorate him with a movie about his killings, it seems utterly barbaric. The people he killed, whether they were 'enemies' or not, are all still people, with family who love and care for them. This film just totally dehumanises the Iranians who were killed by this man, just as the fictional Nazi celebrates the killings of the 'enemies'. I think it is rather in bad taste to make a movie condoning and celebrating the death of hundred of men, women and children.