What 'American Sniper' Gets Right – And Wrong – About War (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

“American Sniper” has lit up movie theaters across the country like no January release ever. The story of famed Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle and his 160 confirmed kills in Iraq. Its box office receipts worldwide are over $250 million already and still roaring. So is the conversation – debate, controversy – over American Sniper’s message and morals and meaning. Is it pro- war? Anti-war? Is it a story of American heroism? Should it be? Is it a Hollywood clean-up of a tortured war? This hour On Point: “American Sniper.”
Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/01/30/american-sniper-chris-kyle-box-office-clint-eastwood