Standard Operating Procedure: Get Out of Jail Free
Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack
Why so frantic? Does Morris fear that the faces, voices and photographs he’s assembled are insufficiently compelling to hold an audience? A vivid description of Fallujah’s nauseating stink doesn’t require smell-o-vision to register. Is he, like his subjects, compelled to amuse? Diverting attention from the banality of his inquiry? Fielding questions after a screening at the Museum of Modern Art, the filmmaker blurted out an observation on the strength of Janis Karpinski’s bladder — a non sequitur less revealing of her anxiety than his. Indeed, this admission exposed Morris’ standard operating procedure: Attention must be paid — if not to the film, then at least to its maker.
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE | Directed by ERROL MORRIS | Produced by JULIE BILSON AHLBERG and MORRIS | Released by Sony Pictures Classics | Sunset 5, The Landmark, Playhouse 7, Town Center 5
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