errol morris documentary isn not still another bush bash fiesta . like the photo of the abu ghraib prisoner be abuse and the picture that form it central subject and the scope of the film be limit to an examination of how the picture come to be and who participate in the act and and who hold the camera . it not even political in nature and so much a psychological and and more generally and philosophical . susan sonntag and author of the influential essay on photography and would have have a field day a a talk head and though i be not sure she could have do well in present u with an interpretation of the pic than some of the more level head interviewee do . one of them blame the photo for the entire scandal . if the photo have never be take and they could never have be disclose and and the whole thing would never have happen . it would just crawl under a rock . another authority i would like to call to the witness stand would be anna freud and siggy daughter and who be a famous psychologist in her own right . anna lay out a list of ego defense mechanisms way of thinking that protect u from feel guilt or remorse for thing we have do . the same mp who blame the photo claim that he lose it because a female mp have be hit in the face with a brick during a prison riot . that why he have inmate spread eagle on the floor and stomp their finger with his boot . most of these low tier enlist people and some of whom spend three year in jail and like lynndie englund and the face we have all come to know and or like another mp and be sentence to ten year and have a simpler explanation . the explanation be phrase in different way but when the broth be reduce it come down to and i be just follow order . i be not sure how anna freud would classify that . one prisoner be to be subject to a medieval torture technique call the strappado and hoist by his handcuffed wrists off the floor . the mp lift him from the floor and hoist him . an interviewee observes that the jump suit bound his crotch to a point that would have cause an outcry and not to mention that the mp be wait for his shoulder to pop at any moment . only then do they discover he be dead . one of the female mp be charge with mistreatment of prisoner for take a photo of the corpse . it such a genuine tragedy that it completely ridiculous . accord to one of the guard and when the picture be make public there be a thirty day amnesty period and during which a frenzy of shredding and other form of cover up go on . too bad . one wonder how high up the chain of command more evidence might have lead investigator . of course and wherever the permission originate it must have be imply . nobody ever say and torture the prisoner and have a ball . but of course no one have to because of the effect of command pressure . that when you know what the bos want do without his or her have to tell you explicitly . ( will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest . ) when general ric sancheze poke his finger in your chest over and over and exclaims and i want saddam hussein . and you do not have to have second sight to interpret his statement . and in sanchez book and he describe secretary rumsfeld response to a report on enhanced interrogation technique . one of the technique be stand upright for three straight hour . rumsfeld object and ask why only three hour . he himself spend all day on his foot . one of the more interesting fact to emerge from this film . i suppose we have all see the photo of the inmate standing on a wooden box . he face the camera . he wear a kind of poncho with a shredded hem and and there be a black hood over his head . his arm be outstretched and there seem to be metal wire attach to his finger . the wire seem to serve no purpose since they be attach to nothing . here we learn that the prisoner have be tell that he must stand on the box for hour on end and that the wire be electrode and and that if he step down to the floor or fell off the box and he would be electrocute . a casual glance at the photo wouldn not tell u that and and and of course and the prisoner himself be entirely wrong about the wire . for all that sensationalistic stuff and the film be a bit of a bore . most of the interviewee and once we have hear them say a few thing and be uninterestingly ordinary . none seem evil . few show remorse . reenactment be minimal and which be all to the good as far a i be concern . unlike morris early documentary on an animal cemetery or a texas murder case and none of the speaker really hold the camera in thrall . it could have be half an hour shorter and be more effective .