Since we screened Brian De Palma's Redacted in class, some of you might be interested to know that Gary Sinise is helping to produce a rebuttal film called Brothers at War. The article in the print version of the Detroit Free Press indicates that Sinise is convinced that "Brian De Palma hates the American military." What I found most fascinating, however, is the fact that "Sinise says he never saw Redacted."
This is nothing new, of course. In my field of religion in film, this happens often; for example, many of the Christians who protested the release of Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ or Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code refused to see the films. But I still find the phenomenon difficult to explain. Is it defensible to be offended by a film you haven't seen? What psychology underlies such a reaction?
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