Brian DePalma and Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, have made a deeply
contemptible movie called
Redacted. It has been playing at the Venice Film Festival. Redacted tells the horrifying story of the worst crime committed by American soldiers in Iraq: the rape of a 15-year-old girl and the murder of the girl and her family, for which the perpetrators are now serving prison terms up to and exceeding 100 years. The movie is shot in a documentary style, but is fictionalized.
Why is Redacted contemptible if the story is true? Because it suggests that the crime is somehow typical of what American soldiers do in Iraq. Because it shows none of the heroism, or even normality, that generally characterize the troops' efforts there. Because DePalma has admitted--bragged, actually--that his movie is a piece of propaganda intended to turn public opinion in the U.S. against the war.
"PIECES OF GARBAGE" does not begin to describe DePalma and Cuban. IMO the making of this movie is the worst act of treason since Hanoi Jane sat on a NVA AAA battery during the Viet Nam War. Depalma's freedom of speech/expression ends when his actions cause harm to American soldiers, or to American civilians anywhere in the world.
Stand aside Sean Penn, there's someone else that I want to punch in the face.
TO
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