MOVIE: Redacted

This is one of the many new films set in the middle east(Rendition, The Kingdom, etc) that deals with the ever so (un)popular issue of terrorism. Redacted is an extremely shocking tail of everything that our government and our leaders don't want us to see. This movie is not for the faint of heart by any stretch of the word. According to the NYtimes the film has very explicit and shocking scenes of torture and suffering, scenes that depict a boy getting raped and killed, an improvised explosive going off and the beheading of a soldier (I'm sure you can imagine). At the end of the faux documentary the director shows the faces of dead and maimed Iraqi's, an idea that has already come under fire (no pun intended). Of course it's blatantly ironic that the film is called "redacted" and the directors own work has been subject to redaction.

For once a film with a great TRAILER. The film is about covering up images and truth so that's what the trailer does, it doesn't give away anything that the movie has in store for us (audio only), making it that much more powerful.

Redacted hits theaters, Nov. 16

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