Product: Casualties of War [UMD for PSP] (1989)
Rating: 5.0
The Empathy of Brian de Palma
Casualties of War is probably the most insightful, thought-provoking Hollywood movie ever to deal with the Vietnam war, and one of the very finest war films ever made. Because its position isn't just "anti-war"--it's a call to compassion, to awareness, and to empathy, and it makes it plain that, if we were at all in possession of these things, the war would never have been possible in the first place. It exposes war--violence--not only as unnecessary and unjustifiable, but as inhuman; as beneath us; and yet, at the same time, as the inevitable side effect of our collective ignorance, what is destroying us.From [...]