The real , tragedy is all these lives lost , for perhaps no real reason , the man just bragged about his missions , rather then keep it secret , He wanted attention and Hollywood
It would have been nice if the movie covered , why the soldiers were there in first place sicne there was no WMD in iraq and there were no terrorist in iraq mostly the place was destabilized due to invasion
In end he said something nasty to another marine and the other guy shot him in end
The movie does not even mention the Sniper was killed by another marine
What we really come back to ... is all the people who died , what did they died for in end ?
Did Saddam Hussain pose a risk that so many people had to die ?
The Sniper himself was just a pawn a mere unit
The big story is the Sniper was there to just merely follow "ORDERS" which were illegal in nature in first place to destabilize a country that was posing no security threat, so in essence he was the enforcer of the bad judgement , which eventually created a space for groups like ISIS to form in long run
The Sniper had only joined military after his Rodeo career ended with injury and he could no longer participate in Rodeo , his intentions were always to earn a living as he did not knew any other professional he hated books and schools , stated in his memoirs and books
So here we see the system taking a man , who clearly was not educated to work and puting a gun into his hand and then sending him to a war he does not know what is it for ?
When he comes back his life is all gone , marriage fails. And he is in debt
For mere - orders which proved to be wrong in end
It would have been nice if the movie showed cut scenes , when Sniper was running around dodging enemies what was congress doing which parties and lunches were those executives were attending , perhaps it was the Tuxedo event in the city
While the sniper was calling home , thinking it was going to be his last night , no cut scenes were shown congressional leaders enjoying a nice football game on TV , unaware of a person called Sniper
I wish they had cut-scenes , split windows one showing sniper going thru his shiat and in other window showing the congress leader enjoying his life , chilling not aware of his bad decision
And what is even more tragic is that his death story will be taken up to lure more "young folks" to path of killing and destruction