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Article: DE PALMA MAKES A VIOLENT, ANGRY, FORAY INTO IRAQ WAR IN 'REDACTED'.(LA.COM)
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- November 16, 2007
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Byline: BOB STRAUSS
>FILM CRITIC
Leave it to Brian De Palma to go straight for the ugly with his Iraq war movie, "Redacted."
Using all the modern media he could digest -- personal camcorders, sanitized news reports, nausea-green filtered night vision, Jihadi Web sites, French TV exposes (for some reason) -- our greatest visual regurgitator whips up a fake documentary that's chillingly realistic and depressingly unforgiving. It's based on a true-life case of the murder of an Iraqi family, after the gang rape of their adolescent daughter, by American troops.
De Palma actually films the crimes discreetly (for the man who made "Body ...