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Posted By Disembedded 1 year, 4 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentAcademy Award winner and documentary filmmaker Errol Morris’s “Standard Operating Procedure” is an inquiry into the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. It is, predictably, a very bleak and depressing movie. In broad strokes, the documentary addresses many of the issues that abound when government-authorized torture is accompanied by that same government's public denial of any responsibility for the torture, leaving young male and female soldiers left to their own poorly-informed tactics. The documentary focuses upon interviews with some of the soldiers who actually carried out the torture and abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which could have enabled the documentary's subjects to speak for themselves, to raise their own voices. Unfortunately, as the film progresses, it becomes clear that even when those subjects are able to speak from the vantage point of looking back in retrospect, they are only capable of providing, or willing to provide, anything more than defensive testimonies on their own behalves. It is sadly chilling testimony to a government’s pervasive moral vacuum. Shocking photographs and two videos are included.
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