If this was WW2, we'd be speaking BOTH German and Japanese, and I would probably be a bar of soap.
"Redacted" stuns Venice
By Silvia Aloisi
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.
If you finish reading this you will see this is NOT a documentary but is, in fact, something BASED on real events. Real events which, like those in ANY war include actual CRIMINALS among us who get into the armed forces. Real events which are indistinguishable from those which occurred in WW2, or WW1 by our men ...BET ON IT.
This gets worse.
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1 comment:
Great post, Epa.
Some of our troops are people who joined the military to get away from youths lived on the mean streets of ghettoes. Some of these guys were bad guys themselves. And, some of them didn't overcome their problems when they joined the military.
I don't know how many troops, precisely, we have rotated in and out of Iraq, but it is crazy to think you could put 300,000 young men on the other side of the world, sit them in 130 degree heat for months on end, with NO women, and expect that they weren't going to occassionally commit crimes.
As you put it, if they weren't there, they'd be doing it here.
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