Nominated for six Academy Awards and said to be director Clint Eastwood’s best movie, according critics all over the country, “American Sniper” is a masterpiece that has stirred controversy all over the country since its release date in late January.

The film depicts the life of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who is said to be the best and most lethal sniper in American history.

Much of the storyline was taken from Kyle’s autobiography, which he wrote before he was killed in 2013.

Anyone can agree that creating a movie that is meant to explain the hardships of war to an audience who has never been in combat would be difficult, but Eastwood rose to the challenge.

The movie concentrates on how hard it was to be one of the soldiers that was deployed during the war in Iraq after the events of 9/11.

The very first scene in the movie illustrates an incident where Kyle, played by Academy Award winner Bradley Cooper, must make the decision to shoot a woman and her child as they walk towards American soldiers with hidden grenades.

The violence was hard to bear at times, especially when a member of al-Qaida massacred a family in the middle of the street for helping American soldiers.

Not all reactions to the film were positive, which caused a lot of debate among movie critics.

Rolling Stone’s review brought up the differences between Chris Kyle in the movie and Chris Kyle in real life.

Many people described Kyle as being to completely psychotic, and he often referred to his kills as savages.

It seems, judging by his autobiography, that he was proud of his rank as a SEAL and of the number of kills he made. However, in the movie he seems to be at odds with his high number of kills when a former soldier that he saved in combat comes up to him in a store and thanks him for his heroism.

Despite what is said about the real-life Kyle there is a strong message in the movie: being in war is life-altering.

Some soldiers never recover from their life in combat and are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as well as other mental issues associated with the memories of what they witnessed while serving.

Kyle never left the war; he may have gone home to his family but being in the war changed him and he was killed trying to help another veteran overcome the same problem.

Though extremely unfortunate, the end of the movie and Chris Kyle’s death, is another example that shows that when it comes to war there are no happy endings.