His face was disfigured because he had been beaten. The man in the plaid shirt, who is or is about to be shot in the head (his death is shown in NBC News footage taken at the same time), is thought to be Nguyễn Văn Lém (or possibly Le Cong Na), and was either a Viet Cong officer or a political operative. The man with the gun is South Vietnamese National Police Chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. The blown-up image on the wall was taken a dozen years before "Stardust Memories" (February 1, 1968) during the Tet Offensive by Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams in Saigon. The movie is a Felliniesque comedy (it starts right off as a parody of "8 1/2"), not a documentary. Regarding issues raised by Brian De Palma and "Redacted" (see below): Here are two frame grab from Woody Allen's 1980 feature "Stardust Memories," a United Artists release. Woody Allen (foreground, center) in "Stardust Memories."
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