Forty-three years ago today, I was released from the U.S. Army ... and I hate that organization even more today than I did then. What it does to the minds of kids too weak to resist is an ongoing disgrace.
The only way I would actually watch "American Sniper" is after stealing a copy ... so I did that.
The overall thought is that it was an interminable story to tell a simple thing as I was bored with it long before it finally finished. The single most revolting moment was when Chris Kyle asked his wife to 'talk dirty to him' while he is aiming his sniper rifle to shoot someone. He wasn't serious but the revulsion is that the thought ever crossed his mind in such a circumstance.
And possibly that is Clint Eastwood's sophistication. He delivered the movie precisely as ordered as a piece of propaganda-filled tripe but perhaps he is more sophisticated than that. Eastwood is a jazzman and not just some guy who takes a Christmas song, swings it a little bit and calls it jazz. The man can play.
Eastwood's portrayal of Chris Kyle is of a man so simple-minded, unobservant, and closed to reality that Eastwood would have been accused of character assassination if he had shown him to be any more of a psychopath than was already on the screen and which, presumably, was acceptable to those who knew him. However, that portrait is easily sufficient to make the point and perhaps that was Eastwood's deliberate purpose.
Example, Kyle is queried about the Bible he carries but doesn't read. He throws back a flip answer but he still doesn't read it.
The only question remaining to me is whether the military destroyed Chris Kyle, as it ultimately did anyway, or whether he was damaged coming out of the factory and the military only exploited it. You can ask that type of question about serial killers until your teeth fall out but it's not likely any answer will come unless you're as demented as they.
As to why any of this should matter, between 35% and 50% of U.S. cops are ex-military. When you see the psychopathy of Chris Kyle, cops adopting techniques and equipment normally used for urban combat, and an epidemic of cop violence against citizens like I have never seen before in my life, the basis for it becomes readily-apparent. In my experience, less than 1% of people I met in jobs anywhere else were ex-military.
It's one of the biggest problems with the military, other than killing people for no good reason, as the kids come out even more useless than they went into it. They still have no training for any productive skill so there's not much else you can do with them except make them cops. It's the military command's specific purpose to create the most wildly-racist soldiers they can as command deliberately dehumanizes the so-called 'enemy' so boys who would probably not want to be killers can find a justification for doing it. Fuck it, they're all animals anyway. Now bring those boys home to make them cops and ask me again why you have a problem.
If the GOP really gave a damn about the military and the future of America, why did they eliminate the GI Bill.
Network access has been a problem due to storms and there was even a 4.0 earthquake with an epicenter not far from here last night. The result has been a long power failure through the night and Internet access is further complicated by the risk of computer electrocution (not me but the comp) due to power surges from lightning. More is on its way and a lot more is coming tomorrow. I don't anticipate reliable Internet access during that time. Sorry about that but I ain't the one to get the memo about this one. You will definitely need to send that to a higher authority.
The only way I would actually watch "American Sniper" is after stealing a copy ... so I did that.
The overall thought is that it was an interminable story to tell a simple thing as I was bored with it long before it finally finished. The single most revolting moment was when Chris Kyle asked his wife to 'talk dirty to him' while he is aiming his sniper rifle to shoot someone. He wasn't serious but the revulsion is that the thought ever crossed his mind in such a circumstance.
And possibly that is Clint Eastwood's sophistication. He delivered the movie precisely as ordered as a piece of propaganda-filled tripe but perhaps he is more sophisticated than that. Eastwood is a jazzman and not just some guy who takes a Christmas song, swings it a little bit and calls it jazz. The man can play.
Eastwood's portrayal of Chris Kyle is of a man so simple-minded, unobservant, and closed to reality that Eastwood would have been accused of character assassination if he had shown him to be any more of a psychopath than was already on the screen and which, presumably, was acceptable to those who knew him. However, that portrait is easily sufficient to make the point and perhaps that was Eastwood's deliberate purpose.
Example, Kyle is queried about the Bible he carries but doesn't read. He throws back a flip answer but he still doesn't read it.
The only question remaining to me is whether the military destroyed Chris Kyle, as it ultimately did anyway, or whether he was damaged coming out of the factory and the military only exploited it. You can ask that type of question about serial killers until your teeth fall out but it's not likely any answer will come unless you're as demented as they.
As to why any of this should matter, between 35% and 50% of U.S. cops are ex-military. When you see the psychopathy of Chris Kyle, cops adopting techniques and equipment normally used for urban combat, and an epidemic of cop violence against citizens like I have never seen before in my life, the basis for it becomes readily-apparent. In my experience, less than 1% of people I met in jobs anywhere else were ex-military.
It's one of the biggest problems with the military, other than killing people for no good reason, as the kids come out even more useless than they went into it. They still have no training for any productive skill so there's not much else you can do with them except make them cops. It's the military command's specific purpose to create the most wildly-racist soldiers they can as command deliberately dehumanizes the so-called 'enemy' so boys who would probably not want to be killers can find a justification for doing it. Fuck it, they're all animals anyway. Now bring those boys home to make them cops and ask me again why you have a problem.
If the GOP really gave a damn about the military and the future of America, why did they eliminate the GI Bill.
Network access has been a problem due to storms and there was even a 4.0 earthquake with an epicenter not far from here last night. The result has been a long power failure through the night and Internet access is further complicated by the risk of computer electrocution (not me but the comp) due to power surges from lightning. More is on its way and a lot more is coming tomorrow. I don't anticipate reliable Internet access during that time. Sorry about that but I ain't the one to get the memo about this one. You will definitely need to send that to a higher authority.
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