In this essay I will depth into exploration of the film ‘Redacted’ (2007). The contempary war film by Brian de Palma, and state how it is altered by multiplication of digital typologies and formats, with a particular focus on the reception and experience of the film. The aim is to conclude from textual sources with regards to the aesthetic, and to explore the Spector ship and reaction it determines.
‘Redacted’ (2007), is a film biased on the devastating reconstruction of the rape and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl in Iraqi, by American soldier’s in Samarra in 2006. The incident was briefly covered up, the soldiers involved blaming Sunni insurgents. However, the truth was revealed several months later due to a US soldier’s testimony.
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This is evident in the film ‘Redacted (2007)’, during the check-point shooting scenes. Where it displays point-of-view, to where-we-are shots, showing point-of-view footage from the civilians in the car, to the hand-held footage of the pregnant civilian being dragged out of the car, then it shows the woman dying in hospital and her bother being confronted by a news TV crew. The use of digital technologies is also similar with regards to the death of the chef sergeant for the US military force, the use of ‘Angel Salazar’s’ hand held footage display the mans arm being blown off. However, we as an audience get to see another form of digital media through a video on the internet, it is an Al Qaeda promotional website showing the last moments of the soldier before he was killed. The incident regarding the sergeant is also protrayed through a news report, showing solders raiding a civilian residence with regards to the accident to get justice for the crime. However, when the US soldiers killed the pregnant lady, herself and her family received no justice. This mirrors the themes through the film ‘Redacted’, that audience are only shown one side of the story, and this I the military …show more content…
At the end of the film it shows various pictures named ‘collateral damage’, These images are of injured and murdered innocent civilians from Iraq. The writer and director ‘Brian de Palma’, choose to display these images at the end of the film to reinforce his opinion on how the media represents war, and it turn portrays how they are one-sided. Among the images there is a picture of a teenage girl, whom resembles the fifteen- year old girl in the film, and from the picture it looks like she was murdered and raped. The use of this picture was intended to show the audience that the film was an uncensored and honest point of view regarding the war that is happening in Iraq and for the audience to be able to make an emotional connection to the
‘Redacted’ (2007), is a film biased on the devastating reconstruction of the rape and murder of a fifteen-year-old girl in Iraqi, by American soldier’s in Samarra in 2006. The incident was briefly covered up, the soldiers involved blaming Sunni insurgents. However, the truth was revealed several months later due to a US soldier’s testimony.
The …show more content…
This is evident in the film ‘Redacted (2007)’, during the check-point shooting scenes. Where it displays point-of-view, to where-we-are shots, showing point-of-view footage from the civilians in the car, to the hand-held footage of the pregnant civilian being dragged out of the car, then it shows the woman dying in hospital and her bother being confronted by a news TV crew. The use of digital technologies is also similar with regards to the death of the chef sergeant for the US military force, the use of ‘Angel Salazar’s’ hand held footage display the mans arm being blown off. However, we as an audience get to see another form of digital media through a video on the internet, it is an Al Qaeda promotional website showing the last moments of the soldier before he was killed. The incident regarding the sergeant is also protrayed through a news report, showing solders raiding a civilian residence with regards to the accident to get justice for the crime. However, when the US soldiers killed the pregnant lady, herself and her family received no justice. This mirrors the themes through the film ‘Redacted’, that audience are only shown one side of the story, and this I the military …show more content…
At the end of the film it shows various pictures named ‘collateral damage’, These images are of injured and murdered innocent civilians from Iraq. The writer and director ‘Brian de Palma’, choose to display these images at the end of the film to reinforce his opinion on how the media represents war, and it turn portrays how they are one-sided. Among the images there is a picture of a teenage girl, whom resembles the fifteen- year old girl in the film, and from the picture it looks like she was murdered and raped. The use of this picture was intended to show the audience that the film was an uncensored and honest point of view regarding the war that is happening in Iraq and for the audience to be able to make an emotional connection to the