Documentarian Errol Morris finds the chill in our 'Standard Operating Procedure.'
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
"Standard Operating Procedure" is not the first documentary on Iraq. It's not the first film on America's embrace of torture as a weapon of choice. It's not even the first picture to focus on the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. What it is is the first time Errol Morris has looked at these issues, and that makes the difference.
Morris, one of the world's premier documentarians and an Oscar winner for "The Fog of War," has done something quite unusual. He's taken the prison everyone's heard of, the photographs everybody's seen and the torture that people are either ashamed of or in denial about and looked at it all with such a fierce specificity that to experience "Standard Operating Procedure" is to feel as if we haven't focused on those things at all. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4717 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 2 maggio 2008