Review of Redacted (2007) by Rogerc. — 16 Nov 2007
A passionate 21st century anti-war movie. It's like "Casualties of War" in theme: war creates war criminals. But it's very up-to-date technically. We no longer believe in the third-person omniscient camera.
Now we wamt to know who's holding the camera and why and how. So we see the video from the aspiring film student, the French documentary, the Arab TV station, the video blog for Iraq spouses, the exclusive footage for embedded Americam journalists, the Arab website, the terrorist video, the home movie of the returned veteran etc.
DePalma is reminding us of how we get our information. But, when you reconstruct all these pieces, you get back to the same message. War is brutal and brutalizing.
This review of Redacted (2007) was written by Rogerc. on 16 Nov 2007.
Redacted has generally received mixed reviews.
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