Worst movie

This film played fast and loose with a real war crime. It isn't a
documentary and it isn't a docu-drama. It is a work of fiction thinly
based on an event and anyone viewing it should take the film with a
grain of salt.

De Palma should stick to making Springsteen nod pieces or the
occasional organized crime picture.

"Is it not disturbing, nor thought provoking. It is just bad movie making, acting, writing, etc"

You could not be more wrong. This was incredibly disturbing. And it was DePalma's best work since, I dunno, "The Untouchables." You completely missed it.

Stopped reading after first sentence.

Its based on a real story you plum

Whilst the events shown in this movie are shocking - all the more so for being essentially true - but what is most shocking is Americans defending the indefensible.

I cannot understand why most Americans defend Nazi-like atrocities and war crimes. Those who defend these criminals are just as morally corrupt as the murderers are.

The film isn't "around a fictional rape." It actually tells the story of a real rape. The rapists were convicted. You can investigate the real story here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_killings

Private Steven Green, one of the rapists, was quoted as saying "I didn't think of Iraqis as humans."

It is a painful story that should be told. Truth is the last casualty of war. You, my friend, are the proof of that.

i've just read some of the comments made about this film and i understand how this is a touchy subject. I am currently analysing this film as part of my film degree at my university. Now i know that you have accepted this film as a disgrace against America. The truth is however that this film is not about symbolising the truth. Brian De Palma's job in this instance was not to make a guilt trip film, but to highlight the postmodernity of technological advances within the aspect of war journalism. His film is the imagined example of the facts and in no way makes reference to symbolise or depict the true events. Instead he provides the necessary qualities of a story based on historical fact but creates, to me anyway, a clear distance between the real and the not so real. The acting is supposed to be pathetic, the cinematography awful. This is a pastiche attempt at showing America's culture dictating the medium of cinema through multiple media forms. So you see, if you believe this film to be an direct attack upon the us soldiers in iraq you are wrong. You have taken the story and its attempt to prove its authenticity way too seriously.

This is not a typical war film, it is a critique of how Hollywood Cinema and the Capitalist agenda produces films of this quality in an attempt to present the problems of creating full authenticity within a war film. It just is not possible.

and in conclusion....the film is *beep* because it lacks authenticity.