Movie and Television Reviews

Hey Brian!

Where's the movie saying something good about the American troops in Iraq? Or ANYTHING good about what America is doing or has done? You're only one side of the 'record', Brian and if you hate America so much, why don't you pack up and get the hell out.

Is he lying?

George

De Palma’s Redacted redacted I am appalled to hear that Redacted has even itself been redacted. As if it were possible to further destroy the identities of the poor, maimed, dead Iraqis whose faces formed the background of the end titles in Brian De Palma’s film, now add the redaction of their images entirely. Are the cost benefit analysts working for the pharmaceuticals, automobile manufactures and the tobacco companies the only ones with any sense of risk or courage anymore? I prefer to think this has less to do with protecting the producers from legal action or the Iraqis from humiliation and invasion of privacy, than a monumental cowardice when it comes to confronting of the American moviegoer with a little too much reality. De Palma’s initial acquiescence to the insurers forced him to abandon the use of any actual documentary footage in the body of the film. This has already resulted in the Right Wing warmongers accusing him of “making it all up” because he restaged rather than using “real” footage. This colossal inability on their part to understand the difference between art and life is too outrageous to even deserve comment. What this chronic failure of nerve on the part of underwriters will do to the future of actual documentary filmmaking I leave to cynical speculation. I am convinced however that eventually the entertainment industry, corporations and the insurance pencil pushers will so lobotomize the creative spirit in this country, that the only artists left in our culture will be members of the Britney Spears Ilk’s Club. If you wish to see an unrepentant, unredacted piece of filmmaking that is not afraid of lawsuits and not afraid to show the real face of war, I recommend to you a moving three minute video on YouTube called “Kindertotenlied”. http://youtube.com/results?search_query=kindertotenlied&search=Search I hope that when the producers, whose footage was stolen for use in this video, finally get around to suing little old filmmaker (me), they will learn exactly how much blood can be squeezed from a rock (as opposed to Iraq). Abject poverty, ah my foes and oh my friends, does have its privileges! Peace, Bob Boldt

He's not lying in that he's telling people that it's true. But it's not true. To say that this behavior is the norm would be lying.

videos get people all emotional which is the usual left tactic of debate (except for pro-life people that show sonograms). Why would you want to put the victims on film? Isn't a re-enactment good enough. What would be the point? More emotion?

ng;
Yeah, the core mantra of leftists is, "We CARE! Not enough to actually do anything substantive, of course, but we REALLY CARE!"

To everyone that acted in the Anti-Amercian movie Redacted-FU*K OFF! LEAVE AMERICA! WE HATE ALL ANTI-AMERCIANS!