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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
soldier's warning was misinterpreted. No wonder Private Salazar
(Izzy Diaz), in the video journal that he hopes will get him into
film school, says: "Welcome to ...