Worth your time.

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2016)

The film I chose to review was American sniper starring Bradley cooper as Chris Kyle and Sienna Miller as Taya Kyle. This film is about a Navy Seal that has done multiple combat deployments to Iraq. While he is deployed to Iraq, Taya is left behind in the United States to raise their children on her own for the most part. This film takes an inside look into the lives of a family that has to deal with PTSD from the war. Also, this film takes a look at what the families go through while their spouses are on combat deployments.
The theme of the film is the warrior not leaving the solider even when he is home. Chris Kyle did four combat tours to Iraq while he is in the Navy. During that time, he is deployed, Kyle is credited with over 160 kills of enemy combatants. However, seeing his friends get killed while in Iraq had a lasting effect on Chris Kyles mental health. Even when he returned to the states, Kyle couldn't shake the horrors of war from his mind. This led him to be distant with his wife Taya while he was home from his deployments. His contestant need for making sure his comrades were OK left a scar on his mental health that may not ever be fixed. One of the few movies that has that much action with modern weaponry is Lone Survivor.
The Camera work for this film was about as best as they come. Clint Eastwood did an amazing job in capturing the battle scenes in the film. The up close and personal when Chris Kyle was shooting people was amazing. It showed that Kyle was having a problem with all the killing was doing throughout his tours of duty. This film set the standard with the camera angles that had taken place in the film. It made me feel for the characters and the struggle that they were going through. Another great technique was costume design. The military uniforms were flawless when compared to the real thing. Everything from the camouflage fatigues to the weapons and flak jackets that were worn by the Marines and Sailors. It made every scene more believable as watched the film from start to finish.
This movie is a great example of the warrior not leaving the solider even when he is home. I could relate to this film since I was in the Marines and did fight in Fallujah, Iraq when Chris Kyle was deployed there. However, this film really hit home with me when Chris Kyle was having family problems on the home front. It I hard to put into words what we as service member go through while serving overseas. This film does a great job in explaining it for us.