In Redacted II, I would use the power of film to portray the rape of a 13-year-old girl at the home of an award-winning Hollywood director with other major, award-winning Hollywood actors present. This movie is very important for me to show that everyone associated with Hollywood is a violent rapist, and the world should know about it. I hope that it will bring home the reality of the Hollywood culture so that Congress or someone will stop it.

Obviously, I took the idea from director Brian “The Reality Is We’re All Rapists in Hollywood” de Palma, because that is exactly what he is trying to do with his film, Redacted:

A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers who also murdered her family stunned the Venice festival, with shocking images that left some viewers in tears. …

Inspired by one of the most serious crimes committed by American soldiers in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, it is a harrowing indictment of the conflict and spares the audience no brutality to get its message across.

“The movie is an attempt to bring the reality of what is happening in Iraq to the American people,” [De Palma] told reporters after a press screening.

“The pictures are what will stop the war.One only hopes that these images will get the public incensed enough to motivate their Congressmen to vote against this war,” he said.

Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi was gang raped, killed and burnt by American soldiers in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, in March 2006. Her parents and younger daughter were also killed.

Five soldiers have since been charged with the attack. Four of them have been given sentences of between 5 and 110 years.

My film would focus on Roman Polanski, who pled guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl at his home. Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston were there at the time. Polanski fled the country to avoid jail time and hasn’t returned for fear of being arrested. In 2003, his victim, Samantha Geimer, spoke out on
“Larry King Live” on CNN:

KING: Did he forcibly rape you?

GEIMER: You know, I said no. I didn’t fight him off. I said like, no, no, I don’t want to go in there, no. I don’t want to do this, no. And then I didn’t know what else to do. We were alone. And I didn’t want to — I didn’t know what would happen if I made a scene.

I was just scared and after giving some resistance figured, well, I guess I’ll get to go home after this.

KING: So you completed the sexual act.

GEIMER: Right.

KING: It was just straight sex, nothing else?

GEIMER: It was all kinds of…

KING: Did he ask you to do other things?

GEIMER: He did things and I didn’t do anything. …

According to the de Palma standard of “reality,” a crime by one member of a group, even though it is pursued by the judicial system, is a harrowing indictment of the entire group and reflects their collective “reality.” I hope de Palma will do the right thing and turn himself in before he harms another little girl.