Posted on 08/31/2007 6:45:24 AM PDT by tcrlaf
VENICE (Reuters) - 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.
"Redacted", by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war in Iraq due for release in the next few months and the first of two movies on the conflict screening in Venice's main competition.
Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, it is a harrowing indictment of the conflict and spares the audience no brutality to get its message across.
De Palma, 66, whose "Casualties of War" in 1989 told a similar tale of abuse by American soldiers in Vietnam, makes no secret of the goal he is hoping to achieve with the film's images, all based on real material he found on the Internet.
"The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people," he told reporters after a press screening.
"The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war," he said.
Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi was gang raped, killed and burnt by American soldiers in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, in March 2006. Her parents and younger daughter were also killed.
Five soldiers have since been charged with the attack. Four of them have been given sentences of between 5 and 110 years.
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He was very coarse with girls.
A jerk
How big an ego does one have to have to make this statement? No, Brian, the soldiers will stop the war by winning it and you'll continue to slander them. That's what's going to happen.
He is a profoundly dishonest propagandist whose crimes are treaseonous. I don't feel any concern about his personal safety and security.
I’ve honestly just about had it with these people.
We should NEVER go to war again unless the American people are bound by a war time act that starts actually enforcing sedition/treason.
These people have put our troops in danger and aided the enemy from the very beginning. Its not a joking matter anymore. Everyone should be taking this very seriously.
When the Islamists come here, people like DePalma and Robbins should be the first sacrificed.
Its on the internet, so it must be true!! ...."
You ARE forgetting what Libbies, Anarchists, the DNC and Hollyweird ALREADY know!
"THEY" all know that ; (And even Poll after Poll after Poll back me up on this! ) ANYTHING Put Out there BY the media & TV and presented by "Stars" / "Trusted" media/Film people
(-and those who pre-face their propaganda by saying, " Lie after Lie after Lie!.." ) will ALWAYS BE BELIEVED beeecaaaaause!:
" PEOPLE ARE STUPID! " and do NOT Think for themselves!
Notice he keeps repeating,
"..it's ALL on The INTERNET!..It's ALL "Out There"-all you have to do is LOOK!.."-
-But what he is REALLY saying is, "...but ! you really do Not have to Really worry about looking this stuff up for yourself! because "I"; a Trust Worthy , Name-Recognized, FAMOUS person, has ALREADY Done it for you! AND..I am SO Damn Honest! That I will even ADMIT That I MIGHT have made a few, small, Not by MY FAULT, mistakes..but not to worry!..Because I am HONEST!! and have made FILMS!!...and People Give me AWARDS!..and to EACH OTHER!..."
Look at NEW YORK-Westchester County; The 3rd RICHEST COUNTY in the USA! with the 2nd Largest % increase in NEW MILLIONAIRES per Total Residence that was Reached in UNDER ONE YEAR of START UP!-
In other words; PEOPLE/Business OWNERS!- who STILL-despite that they JUST became Millionaires! (From Poverty to RICHES!!; and basically using ILLEGALS TO DO THEIR Construction/lawn care/Slave-labor intense Businesses!)
And they STILL VOTED FOR KERRY-EDWARDS--the DEM PARTY!!
that would RAISE Their TAXES!-would set Unbearable Demands for PAPERWORK, TAX & Business forms/permits/inspectors! TAXES!! FEES! PERMITS!! INSURANCES!! and cause so MUCH New Taxes/Control over how they are even suppose to RUN their businesses!
THEY ALL HAVE KERRY & H-I-L-L-A-R-Y BUMPER STICKERS ON THEIR ; BMW'S!!, VOLVO'S!! JAGUARS! AND HUMMERS! and will throw away all their hard worked for their ; Cash, NEW Businesses! New Country Club Memeberships! Private Schools for THEIR Children- and their new found WEALTH!= ALL so these People; these "Stupid People-but VOTING PEOPLE!-can CLEAR THEIR Forced Guilt PAINS by Voting DEMOCRAT (The Little People party!) and then "Feel Better" about themselves!
Just like there was/ still IS a Big Media push to Capitalize on the Media's self-named ; " Uncovering!", "Exposing!!" the MILITARY and it's "Scandalized!", "OUTRAGEOUS!" THIEVERY! of U.S. Work Contracts in IRAQ!
Buuuut!
What ever DID happen after the Discovery of the THIRTY FIVE plus BILLION Stolen from thr OIL FOR FOOD United Nations Programs!?
THAT was PLASTERED (HAA!) aceoss the news; in " Section C; Page 8 " of the papers!(-after the Underwear Ads in the Employment-Opportunities- yet WAY BEFORE the 18 page pull-out section on HALLIBUTON & Chenney!)
Yet; The GOP/RNC can't even get the RINO's OUT and correct their own "House" problems concerning getting even HALF as Unified publically as the Dems are!
Hollywood has a perverse send of patriotism and its role.
De Palma's "Casualties of War" was coincidentally (ha!) on one of the basic cable networks this week.
I wonder why De Palma skipped that subject.
The distributor is something called Magnolia, they only plan a limited U.S. release later this year and plan to focus on distributing the film in Europe.
“Redacted”, by U.S. director Brian De Palma, is one of at least eight American films on the war in Iraq due for release in the next few months and the first of two movies on the conflict screening in Venice’s main competition.....”
And all eight of these are the usual heavy handed and sanctimonious cow dung hit pieces on the U.S. military. These movies either focus on the very few wrong things the U.S. military did, or show veterans as psychologically unstable and forever damaged by the Iraq conflict and prone to PTSD rambo rages.
Really, is it THAT much to ask for a movie about Iraq that shows the great things our troops and others have accomplished there, while at the same time showing some of the dangers they have faced and continue to face?
De palma’s been ridiculed too many times to count..anyone remember Mission to Mars (2000)and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)? God awful stuff.
Yet he manages to get Hollyweird money to make hateful propaganda like this?
Shameful chump.
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