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2007

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Starring	Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa, Patrick Carroll
Director	Brian De Palma
Genres	Drama

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Director Brian De Palma, whose CASUALTIES OF WAR addressed a horrific tragedy that occurred during the Vietnam war, turns his attention to Iraq with an unfortunately similar tale. Inspired by true events, REDACTED follows a group of soldiers who are stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz) is an aspiring filmmaker who is intent on capturing his experience on videotape. His fellow soldiers--Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney), and Gabe Blix (Kel O’Neill)--seem to be surprisingly well-adjusted at first, but it isn't long before their true colours come through. When Reno decides to get drunk and harass an Iraqi family, the situation devolves into rape and murder, putting an incredible strain on Lawyer, who wants to expose Reno but doesn’t want to rat out a fellow soldier.

In making REDACTED, De Palma embraced the various forms of technology that have allowed soldiers to connect with Americans back home: video cameras, blogs, YouTube, etc. The result is a fictional documentary that feels immediate and experimental, incorporating first-person video perspectives, security cameras, and a variety of other techniques to tell its tragic tale. De Palma is clearly unhappy with the developments in Iraq, and he wants the world to know that he doesn't support the war. REDACTED will certainly never be misconstrued as a pro-war film. This is a challenging work that attacks the very nature of the American presence in Iraq.

Starring	Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa, Patrick Carroll, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Kel O'Neill
Director	Brian De Palma
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 30 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 31 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 26 mins
Certificate	DVD LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English, French, Arabic, German Blu-ray: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Released	Production year: 2007 To Watch Online: LOVEFiLM Instant: 31 Dec 2011 To Rent: DVD: 21 Jul 2008 Blu-ray: 20 Jul 2009
Watch now	Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant. Subscribe.

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- There are two separate battles for hearts and minds being lost in Brian Casualties of War De Palmas... read more on Time Out
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  I've given this film 0 stars purely because I would feel indecent rating such a harrowing subject matter,considering how it would seem certain that the ... read more »
  
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  In short - Terrorist drivel
  
  It's seems obvious that Brian De Palma has never served in the forces. With his history of negativity toward the efforts of soldiers in mind I wonder what ... read more »
  
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  A horrible film with horrible charcters and a horrible rape scene.
  
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  RED- WITH ANGER AT HOW BADLY IT WAS -ACTED
  
  If you liked films like Cloverfield then you might like this film-come documentary of possible events during the Iraqui war. If you don't like such low ... read more »
  
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- 10 Mar 2008
Those blacked out words, lines and paragraphs in government and military reports? They've been redacted. So has the true face of the Iraq conflict, maintains Brian De Palma - and not just by the authorities, as you would expect, but by the news media. His question is simple: "Where are the images of this war?" It's obvious that he has a point. Save for carefully vetted reports from embedded journalists, Iraq is a black hole most of us struggle to imagine. De Palma is old enough to have... Read more
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  Director Brian De Palma, whose CASUALTIES OF WAR addressed a horrific tragedy that occurred during the Vietnam war, turns his attention to Iraq with an unfortunately similar tale. Inspired by true events, REDACTED follows a group of soldiers who are stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Angel Salazar (...

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  Director Brian De Palma, whose CASUALTIES OF WAR addressed a horrific tragedy that occurred during the Vietnam war, turns his attention to Iraq with an unfortunately similar tale. Inspired by true events, REDACTED follows a group of soldiers who are stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq. Angel Salazar (...