Friday, August 31, 2007
"Redacted" stuns Venice | Entertainment | Entertainment News | Reuters.com
Director Brian De Palma is trying to use a few instances of horrors in Iraq to try to pursue his angle of getting American troops out of Iraq.
A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears.
It's the same one sidedness that you'd expect from people like Michael Moore.
Yes the rape and killing of an Iraqi girl and her family did happen. It also meant that soldiers who did an dishonorable, shameful, and horrific act went to prison for their various roles in the attack.
I've made several points both good and bad about Iraq, but because Brian De Palma wants to push his agenda through the eyes of cinema, he doesn't push for the positives. His movie doesn't show schools being opened for the first time, citizens rising up against terrorists, bloodshed going way down, etc.
That's not to say I don't enjoy his other movies, but the difference is that they are just movies, not depictions of real life while you try to push a semi-hidden agenda.
Travis
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