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Article: Warring fictions ; Director Brian De Palma's controversial account of the Iraq war mixes real and staged footage to powerful effect
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2008
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AT ONE point in Brian De Palma's polarising semifiction about the
horrors of the Iraq war, an old car trundles along a dusty road
towards an American checkpoint.
There's a sign that says "Stop" in Arabic and, when the vehicle
doesn't, a soldier puts his hands up to make the situation crystal
clear. But the car goes on, presumed to be carrying a bomb, and is
fired upon.
The result is the deaths of a family of Iraqis taking a pregnant
woman to hospital.
Apparently nobody in the car could read the sign and the