15 Reasons to live

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American Sniper

     After reading through the play "A Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo", I expected to see inhuman behaviour that will be performed by American soldiers. But of course, that did not happen as it is a American movie LOL.

     Across the whole movie, the timeline keeps coming across. From war zone, to hometown, back and forth... Our main character Chris Kyle was a cowboy from a Texas, but his girlfriend cheated on him, so he and his brother decided to join the Marine. Quickly, he fell in love with Taya and had their first baby while he was in Iraq. 

     Chris as an excellent sniper, he often encounters the situation when women/children come into his range. Every time he prays that they do not carry a gun or a bomb. But sometimes to save soldiers' life, he has to do it. He is extreme calm, confident, and determined as he said to his son. Sometimes he even leads the ground unit to clear up establishments. He is respected and careful enough to save his folks from being killed. And finally managed to kill the other sniper even when they were being surrounded by enemies and storms.

     After several tours in Iraq, when Kyle came back home, he seemed to have some mental issue, or maybe temperament issue. He cant stop himself from going back to Iraq. But finally he received proper treatment and came back home and having a great time with his families.

     To be a human means to love and protect one's country.

     Without getting cheated on, Chris will not go join army and meet his beautiful wife Taya, and he will not be that respected as a great sniper. And every time when Taya tried to convince him to stay, he always says "I have to protect the country". He is a true patriot. Just try to imagine if you were Chris, will you left you family and newly born kids and choose to risk your life? Maybe many people would say yes, but if we are actually under that circumstances, I believe not too many would say so. If I was not mistaken, it was the 911 that inspired Chris to join the army. The training was tough, and he as well as any other soldiers managed to finish the whole training.

     To be a human means to be loyal.

     You need to be loyal to your partner(Chris got cheated on), as well as you country, just like Chris. Also when Chris is away in Iraq, it is actually very tough for Taya to raise 2 boys as well as taking care of the whole families.

     To be a human means to get used to different environment.

     When Chris came back from war, he seemed to have some issue. It is understandable that after seeing all these killing and death, you will feel weird and have bad dreams. He did not care about the family that much and could not focus. But luckily Taya did not give up on him and Chris managed to keep up and get used to normal life. All the retired soldiers who had injures and stayed in the hospital, they are happy. 


     Comparing with the play, the biggest similarity is "killing makes human loses humanity". In the play, Kevin and almost all other soldiers gone crazy, some committed suicide, some just died...They were not able to separate between the normal life and the war. In American Sniper, there is no suicide caused by killing, but all the soldiers do have super high pressure. What touched me was in the end, when Chris having fun with his family and helping other veterans, he got shot by a veteran he was going to help. I think not too many people noticed that, his brother actually was not happy with going to the war. I suspect it was the brother who killed him? I do not know the reason why the veteran killed him? Jealousy? Maybe, but it is one of the result of killing makes human loses humanity. After seeing and killing all these people, they have been benumbed. Maybe to that guy killing Chris is just like killing any other people...

     Is war really necessary? Will it actually kill our humanity? Maybe it is our own choice.