
There must be plenty of American soldiers who don’t go around raping and murdering innocent civilians. Apparently though, those aren’t the kind Brian De Palma is interested in. Almost 20 years ago, in Casualties Of War, he recreated one such atrocity from Vietnam, and now he does so again - this time focusing on a 2006 war crime perpetrated by five US grunts in Iraq. “Once again a senseless war has produced a senseless tragedy,” De Palma rues. So why does Redacted have only a fraction of Casualties’ impact?
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