Errol Morris documentaries tend to be about people on the fringes of society, far away from public attention. This has changed in recent years, first with The Fog of War's subject (Robert McNamara) and now Standard Operating Procedure, about the torture in the Abu Gharib prison.
Morris's documentary suffers in part because we've already seen the shocking photographs and have likely come to our own conclusions about the moral character of the torturers. We do get a different and perhaps more sympathetic look at the people involved, and an investigation into how photographs both reveal and conceal information. The film is well-crafted in the way that Morris documentaries always are, but it fails to be truly gripping.
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