Brian De Palma isn't waiting another 20 years to make an Iraq War counterpart to 1989's CASUALTIES OF WAR, his delayed reaction to the moral quagmire of Vietnam. Using the editorial method known as "redaction," by which multiple, often conflicting sources are collated and often censored to form a single, coherent text, the film looks and feels like nonfiction cobbled together out of several independent visual documents: the video journal of a U.S. Army private, a slick French art-house documentary, Arab news-channel special reports, base-camp security-camera footage, Army interrogation tapes, and Internet video posts. Out of these "real" accounts, details of a terrib...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins