I could have written this review. I wish I had. (It's a bit long and reveals a few movie tidbits, but worth the read)
I can't even decide which part to excerpt, it's so good. I guess I will excerpt the first part, because that is really the first thing I posted myself after watching the movie.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397225/why-we-line-american-sniper-lee-habeeb/page/0/1
I can't even decide which part to excerpt, it's so good. I guess I will excerpt the first part, because that is really the first thing I posted myself after watching the movie.
What made the ending of America’s top-grossing movie of the past two weeks so extraordinary was what happened not during the movie but after it. Anyone who’s seen it will tell you. It was the silence, the silence as American Sniper came to an end. There was no soundtrack blaring at us as the credits rolled, a bold decision by the movie’s 84-year-old director, Clint Eastwood. That choice had its intended effect; not one person in the theater spoke while they rolled.
In a world where silence is difficult to find anywhere human beings gather — and even where we don’t — Clint Eastwood created a space for the audience to just shut up for a moment and share some silent time together, without comment, without opinion or text or tweet.
But it wasn’t just the silence. It was the stillness. Not one person in a very full theater moved as the credits rolled. Not one person got up and tried to beat the crowd or got on the phone.
It wasn’t until the house lights were up that the audience ushered out of the theater, visibly shaken, most of us wiping away tears, or still trying to hold them back, as if we’d just been through something important together — something profound, like a funeral. It was just a few hundred of us, old and young, white and black, and every ethnic group imaginable, alone in the dark in the Malco Theater in Oxford, Miss., doing our best to process what we’d just witnessed and lived through, which was, in some respects, what so many of our soldiers lived through in Iraq.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397225/why-we-line-american-sniper-lee-habeeb/page/0/1