Redacted fictional story inspired by real events
Redacted fictional story inspired by real events. It is a unique experience which will force us to reconsider dramatically filters through which we see and accept the world events, the power of the media image and the influence exercised by the presentation of images on what we think and what we believe.
The film focuses on a small group of American soldiers garrisoned at a checkpoint in Iraq. The succession of different points of view allows to compare the experience of these young men under pressure from journalists and media staff with that of the local Iraqi community to shed light on the disastrous consequences that the current conflict and their chance encounter have had on each of them.
Critique:
In Redacted, Brian de Palma denounces not just American policy in the Middle East, it goes further by questioning our report ambiguous images.
As a result, [the film] exists, "wrote critic Serge Daney in 1981 about Blow Out is the immense love of cinema by Brian De Palma. And contrary to what one might think, less morbid love that the film was able to do in the time that love excited for what he can. "
More than twenty years later, the formula still sounds fair. At 68 years, the director of Carrie ... Or Scarface is more than ever "excited" by his art and continues to interview them to assist in consciences. For example, last September, the American Film Festival in Deauville, the discovery of his Redacted came as a bomb.
Where many films on the subject (in the valley of Elah, Lion and Lamb ...) rely solely on the supposed strength of the story, De Palma adds technology as a vehicle for his questioning. The film mixes different points of view, captured by various image formats: HD cameras, surveillance cameras, internet, news, blogs ... It offers a supraréaliste "vision" and "modern" of the event described.
However, this is only realistic facade and, as pointed out one of the protagonists: "The truth is the first casualty of war." If the camera does not lie, the images they record, though. These concerns intellectual not surprising coming from the American careless high in the 50's and grew up in the brutal sixties (assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, the beginning of the Vietnam War).
At that time, De Palma and his fellow travelers - Spielberg, Scorsese and Coppola - shake up the rules in Hollywood, inventing new ways to tell stories and are witnesses of their time. The director immediately displays a penchant for eclecticism and will rub shoulders with all genres: the musical (Phantom of the Paradise), horror (Carrie), the psychological thriller (Pulsions, Body Double), the film Mobster (Scarface, The stalemate) even more Hollywood productions as The Untouchables and more recently Mission: Impossible.
Redacted marks its second foray into the war film after Contempt (1989), which already mentioned the rape of a civilian (Vietnamese in this case) by American GI's. Awarded a Silver Lion at the last Venice festival, sparked achieved without star and with a modest budget has already been forgotten on the disappointments of his last three films: Mission to Mars, or Le Femme fatale Dalhia black.
The film focuses on a small group of American soldiers garrisoned at a checkpoint in Iraq. The succession of different points of view allows to compare the experience of these young men under pressure from journalists and media staff with that of the local Iraqi community to shed light on the disastrous consequences that the current conflict and their chance encounter have had on each of them.
Critique:
In Redacted, Brian de Palma denounces not just American policy in the Middle East, it goes further by questioning our report ambiguous images.
As a result, [the film] exists, "wrote critic Serge Daney in 1981 about Blow Out is the immense love of cinema by Brian De Palma. And contrary to what one might think, less morbid love that the film was able to do in the time that love excited for what he can. "
More than twenty years later, the formula still sounds fair. At 68 years, the director of Carrie ... Or Scarface is more than ever "excited" by his art and continues to interview them to assist in consciences. For example, last September, the American Film Festival in Deauville, the discovery of his Redacted came as a bomb.
Where many films on the subject (in the valley of Elah, Lion and Lamb ...) rely solely on the supposed strength of the story, De Palma adds technology as a vehicle for his questioning. The film mixes different points of view, captured by various image formats: HD cameras, surveillance cameras, internet, news, blogs ... It offers a supraréaliste "vision" and "modern" of the event described.
However, this is only realistic facade and, as pointed out one of the protagonists: "The truth is the first casualty of war." If the camera does not lie, the images they record, though. These concerns intellectual not surprising coming from the American careless high in the 50's and grew up in the brutal sixties (assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, the beginning of the Vietnam War).
At that time, De Palma and his fellow travelers - Spielberg, Scorsese and Coppola - shake up the rules in Hollywood, inventing new ways to tell stories and are witnesses of their time. The director immediately displays a penchant for eclecticism and will rub shoulders with all genres: the musical (Phantom of the Paradise), horror (Carrie), the psychological thriller (Pulsions, Body Double), the film Mobster (Scarface, The stalemate) even more Hollywood productions as The Untouchables and more recently Mission: Impossible.
Redacted marks its second foray into the war film after Contempt (1989), which already mentioned the rape of a civilian (Vietnamese in this case) by American GI's. Awarded a Silver Lion at the last Venice festival, sparked achieved without star and with a modest budget has already been forgotten on the disappointments of his last three films: Mission to Mars, or Le Femme fatale Dalhia black.
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