Outrages

Adapted from an investigation by Daniel Lang published in the New Yorker in 1969, Outrages ( Casualties of War ), Brian De Palma's nineteenth feature film, chronicles the abduction, rape and murder of a Vietnamese woman by a patrol of American soldiers led by Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn). First Class Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) refuses to participate and sets out to expose the culprits.

Nathan Réra's book reconstructs the story full of pitfalls that led to the realization of this underestimated masterpiece. From numerous rare documents (military archives, correspondence, unpublished scripts), the author returns to the real facts and their revelation in the American press, then to the adaptation projects that succeeded one another over a decade, before plunge the reader into the heart of the making of De Palma's film.