Brian de Palma is a tool
[Everyone say cheese! We just got done pretending to be murderous American soldiers on film. Now, it’s Miller time!]
If you walk past 160,000 men in a pressure cooker situation, and one of them flips out and commits a heinous crime, and you focus in on that one incident while ignoring all of the heroism and charity all around, and then explain your motives like this
“The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people,” he told reporters after a press screening.
… you will be liable for your shameless slander in some court, if only in the next life.
de Palma has utterly no interest in reality. Reality is complex. Reality is Americans busting their butts to help people whose backs are against the wall. Reality is our enemies committing the kinds of crimes he finds in isolation here, but doing it daily and in the most premediated and calcuated manner. Brian de Palma isn’t offering reality: he’s smothering it.
“The pictures are what will stop the war. One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war,” he said.
Never mind what will happen if we leave. Never mind the thousands of rapes and tens of thousands of gruesome murders perpetrated by Saddam, his sons and his cronies before we intervened. Never mind those already being planned by the real hate mongers Brian de Palma refuses to condemn.
de Palma is a tool.
[Michelle Malkin points to a favorable review of the film, from John Murtha.]
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