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Rating: R
Release Date: Nov 16, 2007
Running Time: 91 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue Arabic, French and English
A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.
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Writer/director Brian De Palma's treatise on the war in Iraq is raw and ragged, jagged and jarring. It's not an easy film to watch but it is an important one to see.
Story
The principal events of the film--the calculated rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by American servicemen--are inspired in part on an actual incident that has been more widely reported on the Internet than on traditional television or mainstream media, which is what inspired De Palma to undertake the film in the…
