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Article: Movie review: De Palma shows outrage over Iraq war with gimmicky fake doc `Redacted'
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- November 16, 2007
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Brian De Palma's outrage over the war in Iraq is palpable in "Redacted," his fictionalized telling of the real-life rape and murder of a teenage girl by U.S. soldiers.
Certainly this is a story that people need to know about, if they didn't know it already. His technique, however, tends to be gimmicky and cliched.
The writer-director strays from his typically stylized aesthetic with this stripped-down pastiche of fake footage: a soldier's hand-held video diary, a French duo's sepia-toned documentary, TV news pieces and online video from both a terrorist Web site and the blog of an Army man's wife.
His point, of course, is that we're not getting a full picture ...