Saturday, March 01, 2008

{movie} redacted (2007)

Written and directed by Brian De Palma, this docudrama about the war in Iraq uses news broadcast footage, trial coverage and video blogs shot by soldiers and civilians to illustrate the contrast between different forms of media coverage. Homing in on an incident in which a 14-year-old Iraqi girl was raped and killed by U.S. soldiers, De Palma presents a thought-provoking argument that the realities of war are, in fact, victims of perspective.

ireviewnetflix.com rating: * Painfully, mind numbingly, incredibly dull. This was an boring waste of film. I would much rather watch a real documentary on the War in Iraq, not a film pretending to be a documentary.

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