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Obsessed.( Brian De Palma's Redacted)(Book review)

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| November 19, 2007 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Everyone complains about media overload, but no one, including me, wants to give up access to magazines, newspapers, TV, blogs, or Web sites--the thousands of sources of urgent or frivolous assertion. We are caught, willy-nilly, between hunger and surfeit, curiosity and dismay. I assume that Brian De Palma's fascinating but strangely tormented "Redacted" was made in something like this ambivalent mood. It's based on actual events--the rape and murder of a fourteen-year-old girl, and the murder of her family, involving five members of a U.S. Army platoon, near Baghdad, in March, 2006. (Four men have been convicted, and one is awaiting trial.) De Palma has made a fiction ...

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