Alex Von Taibbi's Portrayal Of The Iraq War

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According to some critics, they drew negative points of view and they have the right in all what they said. We start with Matt Taibbi said that the movie turned the complicated moral questions and butchery of the Iraq war into a black and white fairy tale, without presenting the historical context.[1] John Wight writing for Russia Today argued stated that American Sniper depicted the people of Iraq as a dehumanized mass of savages, which the white man was in the process of civilizing.[2] Also Alex von Tunzelmann asserted that the film presented a simplified as usual black and white portrayal of the Iraq war.[3] Then David Masciotra in his opinion criticized the movie and he said that it focuses on physical rather than moral courage as the ultimate

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