Falstaff reviews Brian De Palma’s Redacted, the fictionalized retelling of the rape and murder of a 15 year old Iraqi girl by US troops.
There’s isn’t an ounce of subtlety in this film – every single thing that happens needs to be shown on screen, every single message has to be placed in someone’s mouth. This would be bad enough if De Palma were making a more traditional war flick, but with his ‘found footage’ approach the meticulousness of his documentation defies all credulity. Is it really likely that every single interaction leading up to the rape was captured by some camera or the other, shot from the perfect angle and with crystal clear sound to go with it?
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