Published Date: 18 July 2008 Jaw-dropping documentary sheds light on Iraq War's darkest days STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (15) *** DIRECTED BY: ERROL MORRIS SINCE they first emerged in the world's media in 2004, the photographs of prisoner abuses perpetrated by the US military at Abu Ghraib have, according to document ary-maker Errol Morris, become the most viewed images in the history of the medium. Almost as shocking for the callous theatricality of their composition as they are for the visual record they provide of the obvious pain, distress and humiliation being inflicted upon the Iraqi prisoners featured in them, one of Morris's missions in his new, lavishly produced documentary Standard Operating Procedure, is to examine the problematic nature of these photographs: to interrogate not only what they exposed, but also...
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