I just finished watching “Redacted” by Brian De Palma. A film about America’s war on Iraq. Or rather, the American Army’s attempt to stabilize the coutry, after it overthrew the goverment. In particular it depicts an incident, where in March 2006 US soldiers murdered a family and raped tha daughter before killing her too. The movie is moving and at some points disturbing. But the most important message i got was not from the movie itself. It was from this:

redacted rating difference between USA and the world

Now the first thing that struck me was of course the great difference of opinion between US voters and International voters. This shows to say the least, a lot of negativity on behalf of the majority of Americans on such matters.

The second thing to notice, is of course the surprisingly low number of votes (4,000 in total)! Brian de Palma’s previous movie (which is considered mediocre) has nearly 30,000 votes. But Redacted took no publicity as it seems.

Another movie i watched recently and really enjoyed was “Lions for Lambs”. This one of course is more of a movie than Redacted which wanted to be a documentary-movie. Lions for Lambs too, talks about this war. It talks about what we, ordinary people think of these situations and how far we will go (or won’t…) for what we believe in.

I never held Robert Redford in high esteem to be honest, so this piece amazed me. It is one of those Hollywood movies that actually make you think.

Now, straying way way off the two aforementioned films, i would like to finish this post with a documentary i also recently watched. “Zeitgeist”. Even if you don’t take most of what this documentary shows as truth (though it might be), i think you broaden your mind a lot by watching it. And any other independent documentary for that matter. Zeitgeist II: Addendum has also hit the internet, but it’s not nearly as good as the first. Maybe not even good at all Look for Zeitgeist in the pirate bay.