AMERICAN SNIPER (EL FRANCOTIRADOR)
(EN CASTELLANO DEBAJO) Last night I managed to “run away” to the movies with a friend and see the above movie. It’s quite a big production, very well made. Eastwood knows his stuff and is quite surprising to see somebody who, at 81 years old, is at the helm of such a huge project because, indeed, it looks as if the making of this movie, set in the Iraq War (the second one, led by George W. Bush), was like being in real war. It reminded me of “The Hurt Locker” and the hunt for Bin Laden (“Zero Dark Thirty”). It’s worth mentioning the role of the wife, Sienna Miller (who in real life is blond), in a rather convincing performance as the wife’s soldier (in my opinion these roles are difficult because either they are played as the very obedient, passive and servile wife or as the rather rebellious and non-conformist one. Instead, in “American Sniper”, the wife seemed quite a real character. Indeed, you may even take your wife to see her performance). On the other hand, I th...