Review of Standard Operating Procedure (2013) by Mark T — 27 Jun 2009
Highly recommended. Photos are powerful things but they're all points in time out of context. Errol Morris does a remarkable job allowing the people on the ground at Abu Ghraib put those famous images in context for us.
This isn't a documentary that's for or against anything. It's neither for the Iraqi war nor is it against it. It's neither for the standard operating procedure of making people uncomfortable during the interrogation process or against it. What it's about is getting into the heads and the thought processes of the lowest paid people involved in the operation and finding out what the context was.
If I know one thing it's the Economist's cover with the prisoner on the box attached to the electrical wires should have said more than "Resign Rumsfeld". They could have gone cover to cover with names of people across numerous military and intelligence agencies who should have been booted out onto the street for incompetence.
This review of Standard Operating Procedure (2013) was written by Mark T on 27 Jun 2009.
Standard Operating Procedure has generally received positive reviews.
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