![]() ![]() Rush and Flake are especially vulnerable to demonizing an enemy they don’t recognize or understand. In one such incident, a pregnant woman and her baby are killed when her brother taking her to the hospital races through the unit’s checkpoint thinking he’s been waved on. The documentary reports that during 24 months, 2,000 Iraqis were killed at checkpoints with merely 60 proved to be insurgents. Constantly being told they have to remain on-duty for a further tour, they are drained and on edge. Salazar even records them on-duty, so when one is blown to pieces by a bomb left in roadside trash, he gets it all.īy then, footage from a French documentary about the unit has made clear how the monotony and constant fear of maintaining checkpoints grinds down the men. They goof around for the camera off-duty. Rush (Daniel Stewart Sherman), a blowhard with a lot of body fat Gabe Blix (Kel O’Neill), who likes to read John O’Hara and two sergeants, Sweet (Ty Jones) and Vazques (Mike Figueroa). That includes conversation with the other guys in the unit: Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), a doper whose name is apt B.B. ![]() Clean-cut Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney) also wields a video camera, but Salazar goes to extremes making a daily record of almost everything he sees. While sympathetic to the young men who lose their way in horrible circumstances, the film is nevertheless unflinching in its depiction of the horrors that can result.Ī fictional story based on real events, “Redacted” distills images from an array of sources to tell its story, beginning with those captured by Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a young soldier who hopes the footage will buy his way into film school. It then follows one unit as two of its members skew monstrously out of control.ĭe Palma’s screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Made so expertly that it appears to be assembled from genuine footage, the film details the extraordinary psychological pressure suffered by young soldiers on checkpoint duty in occupied areas of Iraq. It screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival. The harrowing film should find responsive audiences everywhere. Made on HD video and employing images from digital cameras, video recorders, Internet uploads and old-fashioned film, De Palma’s movie is a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved. ![]() U.S actors Robert Devaney and Patrick Carroll star in director De Palma film " Redacted ", which is being shown at the Venice Film Festival. U.S.director Brian De Palma attends a photocall session in Venice August 31, 2007. ![]()
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