A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
You can't expect a young filmmaker to be as pessimistic as Brian De Palma, who collaged footage from CCTV, smart phones and web pages into Redacted (2007).
It’s inevitable that “The Hurt Locker” will be compared to Brian De Palma’s “Redacted,” another picture about soldiers’ experience in Iraq, but it doesn’t have that movie’s raw anguish or sense of outrage.