errol morris new documentary standard operate procedure attempt to challenge the very medium of photography and bring to light the injustice at abu ghraib . the film somewhat succeed in the first respect but fumble it way through the second . documentary be inherently subjective and set out to portray a certain angle while that be say what director errol morris say be his intention and what appear on the screen be two totally different thing . the film stumble through the event at abu ghraib but fail to retain any real emotion and fluidity or energy throughout the work . let look at the good first . errol morris take an interesting stance by constantly ask the viewer what outside the frame . in a sense he question the very medium he be use . this question be answer somewhat through testimony but also quite literally by show viewer photograph before they be crop and such a the infamous leach photograph . errol use some interesting technique and most noticeably the use of the interotron . the interotron be a screen and similar to a teleprompter and that allow the interviewee to look directly into the camera and allow for a more genuine first person feel to the film . however and for everything errol morris do right and there be a myriad of thing do wrong here . while the cinematography of the film interview via the interotron be interesting and the editing that piece it together be awful . the film will cut different angle of the same person talk with gap of black transition that last for almost two second . these pause of black beg you to question be the film over . which be always no . the film clock in at 117 minute and but it might as well be four hour long and because that what it feel like . you can only watch people talk at you for so long . morris attempt to spice up the picture by use grainy and melodramatic and slow motion sequence that serve little purpose other than to pad an already long film run time and to flesh out image of his imagination in an attempt to sway the audience to his kind of thinking . errol morris have state on several occasion that standard operate procedure be not a political film . it sure feel like one . morris paint himself a a detective and similarly to the way he do in the thin blue line and attempt to bring those truly responsible to justice . those in the picture be responsible and but he want to go after those high up and who order the interrogation technique and know what be go on . the film merely grace that aspect and point a broad finger towards higher command and bush administration . instead and the film indulges in the american atrocity commit at abu ghraib and while sympathize with those who be jail . morris also blatantly hint towards the fact that every cell block in every prison in iraq be perform this sort of torture to this degree . why no photograph of any other cell block have not leak and you can decide . standard operating procedure be a failed documentary in that it attempt to be investigative but be so subjective in it material that it just come off a a fumbling clump of information . nothing be truly resolved and more question be ask than answer . it do give slightly more insight to the happening at abu ghraib and but at almost two hour and s. o. p. be self aggrandize and indulgent . morris political belief cloud his objectivity while the way he paint it and president bush and rumsfeld be fully aware from the beginning and actively try to cover it up . why would morris take this approach . because large government conspiracy be a whole lot more interesting than isolated incident . in the end and there isn not a whole lot of report go on here as much a speculating .