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Snipped from EditorAndPublisher.com.
What is really going on in Iraq? We may never know. Why? Because the mainstream media is a puppet of the conglomerate corporate world in which they paint reality as they want it to be painted, not as it is. If anyone ever thought that war was not a profitable enterprise for big business, then you better think again. War is good for business. And, those that profit, even indirectly, will do anything to keep it going. Sound unreal? No, it isn’t. There is one man who is tired of all the whitewash and who sought out the truth by digging for it on the internet. What he found was made into a docu-drama about what is really gong on in Iraq.
If you haven’t noticed but this war has been whitewashed and scrubbed in the media by not publishing the death and violence of the conflict and refusing to publish or air some of the most graphic images. We aren’t even allowed to see pictures of the flag draped coffins of U.S. soldiers returning from the war zone. Well, the director of numerous well-known movies, Brian DePalma who made “Scarface”, “The Untouchables” and “Carrie” wanted to do something about this. So, his latest film simply called “Redacted”, he compiles photos that newspapers have refused to print into a docu-drama that hopefully will make people think twice about the untold misery and suffering we are causing people in Iraq.
DePalma goes deeply into the internet and grabs pictures including soldiers’ home videos and photos that have never appeared in print. In order to avoid lawsuits, DePalma also utilizes more standard documentary film footage and the use of fictionalized techniques and characters to avoid certain legal issues and turns this film into a different kind of docu-drama.
Here is a portion of the article that tells more about the film.
The film centers on perhaps the most horrendous known atrocity involving U.S. troops, the gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and four members of her family in March 2006. DePalma had directed in 1989 a movie about a rape by U.S. soldiers of a Vietnamese girl called “Casualties of War,” starring Sean Penn and the young Michael J. Fox.
All the images we…have of our war are completely constructed — whitewashed, redacted, said De Palma in Venice, according to press reports. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to get their congressmen to vote against the war.
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