be all familiar with the image that begin flow out of abu ghraib prison in the spring of 2004 photo show detainee ( some terrorist and others undoubtedly not ) hood and strip and force to assume painful and or or humiliate position and often for hour on end and with american soldier pose gleefully nearby and smile and flash thumb up sign for the camera . once the picture go viral and they come to symbolize not only the botched operation that be the iraq war and but the fundamental failure of the u. s. military to win friend and influence people in a land the bush administration claim vehemently to be liberate . in standard operating procedure and famed documentary filmmaker errol morris ( the thin blue line ) attempt to uncover the truth behind those photograph and mainly by allow those who be most closely involved with the scandal to tell the story in their own word ( include private first class lynndie england and who and whether fairly or unfairly and emerge a the one clearly identifiable face and household name from the scandal ) . morris provide no voice over narration to accompany the interview and just re enactment of the incident do in a quasi surrealistic style and use slow motion photography and artsy graphic . through his discussion with the principal player in the drama and morris provide a probe study of the effect of war time stress on the human psyche . the film offer no easy answer a to exactly why the event at abu ghraib unfold a they do while yet and while it doesn not turn the individual involve into easy to blame villain and it doesn not completely exonerate them either . in fact and it be the seem normalcy of these people and a they attempt to make their case for the camera and that render their action all the more unsettling . morris also make it clear that these low level individual many of whom have serve time in prison for their crime be most certainly use a scapegoat for high ups in the military who manage to successfully deflect any personal culpability for the event that take place there . in a true journalistic coup and morris be able to obtain grainy home movie shoot at the same time that the picture be be take . a a result and be able to witness the step by step process by which that infamous shot of the naked men stack in a pyramid formation ultimately come about . standard operate procedure doesn not successfully address all the question it set out to answer and but that be hardly a weakness of the film and since it be deal with a complex and messy situation involve complex and messy people catch up in a complex and messy war . one doesn not leave standard operate procedure necessarily more enlightened that when one go in just more well inform . and that perhaps the best one could reasonably hope for under the circumstance .