A better reaction to violence emerges in the classic British/Irish film from 1947 Odd Man Out
American Sniper, Clint Eastwood’s film about the most lethal sniper in US military history has been stirring up controversy. People are fighting in the blogosphere about whether it’s a patriotic masterpiece of tension, or a tale of a misguided, vengeance-fueled man whose courage prevents us from questioning what he did with it. But I think the controversy is missing the…