Willing, witty, and wild would be words to describe Chris Kyle, in the intriguing film American Sniper. Directed by not only an incredible actor but director as well, Clint Eastwood explains the ascending and descending rollercoaster of a life Chris Kyle is living. Eastwood exemplifies the difficulties veterans face when they are getting ready to, are in, and come back from serving. Not only do they have to prepare from being away from loved ones, born or yet to be born, but, they have to also worry about their own life as well and making it back safe and sound, and on top of that if they do have the luck of returning, then they have to adjust to a lifestyle that they have left, but have yet to get used to once again.
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Next, while at war being attacked with his fellow seals, a close friend, Marc Lee, is shot and dies right then and there, but before his death he had written a letter which is later read at his funeral. Kyle claims that it is not the bullet that killed him, but rather the letter because he had “let go.” When Chris goes back on for his second tour and he finds out that he is the most wanted sniper in Iraq, and he has $180,000. On his head. Next when Kyle is giving a speech about how he wants the mission to go down he explains that they are protecting more than just the dirt they are in. Bringing us to the last common topic, would be when Kyle is in the bar talking to his soon to be wife about the difference between rednecks and people from Texas, distinguishing the difference by saying that Texans ride horses, while rednecks ride their cousins.
The ethical paradigm that comes into play in this movie would be short term versus long term, reason for that being because of Chris’s behavior throughout the movie. Due to the fact that he served four tours which rounds up to about 1,000 days which makes each one about 250 days. So due to all the time he got to spend on each tour he only got a short amount of time to spend at home, so he got so accustomed to the war environment he was in that it was difficult for him to adjust back to his original, normal, and calm
To begin with, we start …show more content…
Next, while at war being attacked with his fellow seals, a close friend, Marc Lee, is shot and dies right then and there, but before his death he had written a letter which is later read at his funeral. Kyle claims that it is not the bullet that killed him, but rather the letter because he had “let go.” When Chris goes back on for his second tour and he finds out that he is the most wanted sniper in Iraq, and he has $180,000. On his head. Next when Kyle is giving a speech about how he wants the mission to go down he explains that they are protecting more than just the dirt they are in. Bringing us to the last common topic, would be when Kyle is in the bar talking to his soon to be wife about the difference between rednecks and people from Texas, distinguishing the difference by saying that Texans ride horses, while rednecks ride their cousins.
The ethical paradigm that comes into play in this movie would be short term versus long term, reason for that being because of Chris’s behavior throughout the movie. Due to the fact that he served four tours which rounds up to about 1,000 days which makes each one about 250 days. So due to all the time he got to spend on each tour he only got a short amount of time to spend at home, so he got so accustomed to the war environment he was in that it was difficult for him to adjust back to his original, normal, and calm