redacted

Kel O'Neill, Ty Jones, Daniel Stewart Sherman

A fictional story inspired by true events, "Redacted" will force viewers to reconsider the filters through which we see and accept events in our world, the power of the mediated image and how presenta...( read more  read more... )tion and composition influence our ideas and beliefs. A profound meditation on the way information is packaged, distributed and received in an era with infinite channels of communication, "Redacted" utilizes a variety of created source material--video diaries, produced documentary, surveillance footage, online testimonials, news pieces--to comment on the extreme disconnect between the surface of an image and the reality of ideas and the truth, especially in times of strife. Centered around a small group of American soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq, "Redacted" alternates points of view, balancing the experiences of these young men under duress and members of the media with those of the local Iraqi people, illuminating how each have been deeply affected by the current conflict and their encounters with each other.

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Brian DePalma

Released: November 16, 2007

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DVD Released: February 19, 2008

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  • April 13, 2009
    During the whole movie you feel that De Palma is dragging the obligation of making THE great film about the conflict in Iraq. The result is poor, annoying and striped of the last remaining ounces of imagination this director once had.

    Just take for instance, the fake documentary... ...( read more )
  • November 5, 2008
    Redacted is an interesting and well intentioned film, even if it is heavy handed.
    This is a tough and unpleasant film to watch at times. Its style is unique and works quite well at times, while at others bogs the movie down.
    Redacted is shot from different points of view, mostl... ...( read more )
  • September 20, 2008
    Flashy production and faux multiple media sources don't make this feel authentic and the points about Iraq have been better made elsewhere (Battle for Haditha).
  • August 24, 2008
    This just didnt flow very good and i just didnt like the movie. And hell i hate the war too but it felt forced and cliched.
  • July 23, 2008
    What a futile effort to portray the truth by such a great director...
  • June 19, 2009
    The first casualty of war is the truth, or so the trailers and the posters for Brian De Palma's controversial Iraq War drama, Redacted, claims.

    I would have to say that, after watching the film in question, the first casualty of war is not the truth. It is art. This movie genera... ...( read more )

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November 21, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim

It's a shame that with the vast canvas of this seemingly never-ending conflict that this crap is the image De Palma wants to convey. full review

November 16, 2007
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Even at its most blatantly manipulative, Redacted provokes a response of rage, disgust and anger. De Palma strives to ignite passion, and while some of that passion may end up directed at the film its... full review

November 16, 2007
Kurt Loder, MTV

...this jumble of flat visual tones and wandering narrative focus leaves De Palma--a man who knows where to put an actual movie camera and how to dance it around in an often dazzling manner--in a crea... full review

November 16, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The result of the film is shocking, saddening and frustrating. full review

November 15, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Of all the war-themed pictures that have been released so far this fall, it stands apart, and it stands alone: Redacted is confrontational, rough, immediate and confounding. full review

November 15, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Brian De Palma's Redacted traffics in, and clearly means to provoke, strong, unbalanced emotions.

November 15, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

DePalma's movie offers its own doctoring and processing, without delivering an ounce of real humanity -- good or bad -- in the bargain. full review

November 12, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Critics have called the movie crude and punishing. All right, the defense concedes all that, but the movie does a harrowing job of depicting the psychological toll of the occupation on both Iraqis and... full review

October 7, 2007
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Feels like the work of a director so righteously angry and so pleased with his formal experimentation that he doesn't realize how painfully, inelegantly obvious he's being. full review

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