"AN AMAZINGLY VIGOROUS WORK AND DePALMA's STRONGEST CINEMATIC STATEMENT SINCE 'CASUALTIES OF WAR'." -- Richard Corliss, Time "THE ONLY IRAQ FILM I WOULD RANK ALONGSIDE 'NO END IN SIGHT' IN THE CATE...
"AN AMAZINGLY VIGOROUS WORK AND DePALMA's STRONGEST CINEMATIC STATEMENT SINCE 'CASUALTIES OF WAR'." -- Richard Corliss, Time "THE ONLY IRAQ FILM I WOULD RANK ALONGSIDE 'NO END IN SIGHT' IN THE CATEGORY OF ESSENTIAL VIEWING." -- Scott Foundas, LA Weekly "De Palma's anger and frustration with the media course through 'Redacted' like an electrical current." -- Stephanie Zacharek, Salon
"A SENSATIONAL FILM. DePalma's filmmaking skills have seldom been as razor sharp." -- Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter A fictional story inspired by true events, REDACTED is a unique cinematic experience that will force viewers to radically reconsider the filters through which we see and accept events in our world, the power of the mediated image and how presentation and composition influence our ideas and beliefs. A profound meditation on the way information is packaged, distributed and received in an era with infinite channels of communication, REDACTED utilizes a variety of created source material—video diaries, produced documentary, surveillance footage, online testimonials, news pieces—to comment on the extreme disconnect between the surface of an image and the reality of ideas and the truth, especially in times of strife.
Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq, REDACTED alternates points of view, balancing the experiences of these young men under duress and members of the media with those of the local Iraqi people, illuminating how each have been deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other. The charged apotheosis of Brian De Palma's filmmaking career, REDACTED caps off a body of work which has explored the politics of image-making and reception more fully than any living filmmaker.
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you are kidding, right? one million people have died so far... mostly innocents. Just because they're not American people doesn't mean they're not people. Fuck you and Fuck war. Go yourself and die... along with your small minded attitude towards humans.
I'm not offended by you and your hatred for the military. I understand this is an unpopular war, but then again your not military either, so your opinion is irrelevent anyway. I've served my country from '07 to '09 and haven't killed anyone the entire time. Atleast if I did go and die, my death would mean something unlike regular civilians. I would rather die with the US flag on my shoulder than die doing some worthless job that means nothing.
How dare you say that! Do you know what they did to him?! They killed him on camera. That actually happened in real life. It sickens me the amount of americans that don't care about the very military that defends their freedom. The actual soldier that was murdered, the mother and father will never see their son again. I threw up when i seen that part of the movie! You need to grow a conscience and maybe even join the military yourself, hippie!
" The soldiers sound like the cast of Rent acting like roughnecks, complete with cringingly false badass dialogue (''You're so goddamn white you wouldn't wear yourself after Labor Day!'')..supposedly based on a real incident from 2006. We can tell he's recycling his film, Casualties of War." - Entertainment Weekly "Could be the worst movie that I have ever seen ...." -Medved "...the internet being the only source of accredited information from which he culled his world view." - The Austinist
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Fuck off
"Could be the worst movie that I have ever seen ...." -Medved
"...the internet being the only source of accredited information from which he culled his world view." - The Austinist