Redacted - Movie Review
A couple of nights ago Connie and I caught the new Brian De Palma film Redacted. It’s currently available on Time Warner cable’s On Demand service.
Redacted’s story is fiction, yet it was inspired by the real events surrounding the gang rape and murder of a 14 year old Iraqi girl by US soldiers in 2006. The movie takes a perception is reality approach to how it presents the war to us through the eyes of various media perspectives. The story is shown through a soldier’s camcorder, footage from a French documentary, an Al Jazeera-like news channel, and surveillance video.
I’ve always been a De Palma fan, even his lesser works like Raising Cain, Body Double and Snake Eyes are pretty interesting. This is another interesting miss that’s still worth a look. While I appreciate the film maker’s intentions to create art that’s critical of the war, it plays like Why the Situation in Iraq is Screwed Up For Dummies. Unfortunately, the story and the characters are a little too clear cut and simple.
Posted by chuck at January 9, 2008 9:31 AM
