"Redacted" (De Palma film about rape and abuse by US troops) stuns Venice

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"Redacted" stuns Venice
Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:03 AM ET
By Silvia Aloisi

VENICE (Reuters) - A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.

"Redacted", by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war in Iraq due for release in the next few months and the first of two movies on the conflict screening in Venice's main competition.

Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, it is a harrowing indictment of the conflict and spares the audience no brutality to get its message across.

De Palma, 66, whose "Casualties of War" in 1989 told a similar tale of abuse by American soldiers in Vietnam, makes no secret of the goal he is hoping to achieve with the film's images, all based on real material he found on the Internet.

"The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people," he told reporters after a press screening.

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[DS1]

1. The freeper thread on this is rather predictable

it's all Hollywood's fault in the first place.

stupid whiney ass motherfuckers

[redqueen]

3. It's hollywood's fault those soldiers committed the atrocity, and covered it up?

Yeah... I guess I'm actully not so shocked really. Idiots.

[DS1]

4. oh yes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889352/posts

Brian De Palma = the enemy.

Who is this little prick and where did he come from ? Wasn’t he once a film director? Anti-American sacum...

That a$$ wipe dePalmer still alive? I thought that creep died of AIDS years ago!

Hollywood is the main reason that Americas image has been destroyed.

If not for Hollywood and their inexcusable abuses of freedom of speech our image might just be a tad higher.

This piece of antiwar chicken manure needs to live in some foreign country.

In my lowly opinion, what a piece of scum bag liberal garbage.

[DCKit]

5. So if the Freepers were running Hollywood.....

We would be subjected to Chuck Norris, Arnold, Sly, etc.... war films exclusively.

What do you get when you cross a Republic with a coward? A FREEPER!

[zonkers]

2. DePalma? Not the one to be making this film. Most of his films are rife with gratutious

violence towards women and men for that matter. Casualties of War was an anomaly for him -- and for that matter, not a very good film. On edit -- don't get me wrong, the man is talented. But he is ultimately a terrific B movie maker.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Right.

We wouldn't want a documentary about the rape and murder of a 14 year old girl to be rife with gratuitous violence towards women.

:eyes:

[zonkers]

7. Ahem, it's NOT a documentary. It's a fictional film. And thanks for making me

think I was a sloppy reader, it was really good for my self esteem.