The most d🌳aring and style-consci🐭ous of non-fiction filmmakers, Errol Morris has at least two masterpieces to his credit in The Thin Blue Line and Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control. By those lights, SOP is a bit of a disappointment.
An attempt really to come to grips with those shocking Abu Ghraib photograꦏphs, the film allows the guilty MPs their say: the prison was often shelled… they were saving lives… they were under orders… e🗹veryone knew about it.
Som🎶e do emerge with shreds of hard-won sympathy and Morris makes a subtle case that the photos enabled a cover-up🎃 of greater crimes.
It’s engrossing stuff, but unfortunately it’s also frustratingly narrow in scope. I🧸f you want🌌 to know more on the subject, Alex Gibney’s relatively conventional Taxi To The Dark Side sheds further light on how we got here.
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