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Article: Brian De Palma Explains Himself
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- The Village Voice
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- October 3, 2007
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The divisive director's new film is, he says, just one man's attempt to stop the war
Brian De Palma - known for his perverse tales of voyeurism and violence, from Body Double to Scarface - may have found his dream subject in the Iraq War.
Frustrated with the lack of disturbing images out of Iraq, De Palma set out to "show the other side," he says, with Redacted (screening at the New York Film Festival, October 10 and 11). A mishmash of fictionalized fragments, including a soldier's video footage, YouTube clips, and a French documentary, the digital film tells the story of American soldiers who rape and murder an Iraqi girl. "We have all these infomercials created by the Bush ...