Filmmaker Brian De Palma, who hasn’t had a hit movie in years after studying his IMDB page, is premiering his new movie “Redacted” at the Venice Film Festival.  The movie seems hopelessly anti-military, so look for it to take top prize at the festival. 

Why do we say that?  Well, it’s a movie about the Iraq war made by a man who clearly has a dislike (at a minimum) for the military. 

The movie is about a horrible incident that took place in 2003, where soldiers murdered a family and raped a little girl.  Disgusting, no doubt, and those responsible are being punished severely.  But this was an isolated incident, not the norm. 

De Palma hopes you think of this as the norm, just like his movie about Vietnam, “Casualties of War,” made everyone but the Michael J. Fox character seem less than human, that’s what De Palma wants here. 

Take this quote:

“The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people.”

A fair minded human would look upon this and say they were trying to tell the story of this one event, but that’s not what De Palma says.  Implicit in his statement is that this is normal and current, not one horrible event that took place 4 years ago.  You can learn a lot about what someone really thinks if you look at their word choice.  Directors are deliberate, nothing happens in a movie by accident.

Fearing lawsuits (for what reason we’re not sure, maybe the distortions?), De Palma admitted that his true story was partially made up.

“So I was forced to fictionalize things that were actually real.”

How someone fictionalizes something that is real, yet can claim to be telling the true story is something even De Palma probably couldn’t explain.  But we’re supposed to believe him, and be moved by him to act.  We are moved by him to vomit, and moved away from any theaters that are showing Redacted. 

Update: Here’s another story from this douchebag about how he “knew he had a story” when he heard about this horrible, but isolated (something he forgets), attack, and how excited he was about it. 

As self-important as he thinks he is in all of his other interviews, this line is the cherry on top: “I am the man they love to hate.”

No offence to Brian De Palma, we’re sure there are plenty of people in his life that love to hate him, but we weren’t even aware that he was still alive, and certainly didn’t care enough to check.  So the more proper way to put it would’ve been, “I am the man they love to forget, I mean just look at my box office numbers for the last decade.”