the well know documentary filmmaker errol morris and who receive an oscar for his 2003 study of robert mcnamara and vietnam the fog of war and have put the abu ghraib scandal under a microscope and but the result be too limited a picture of event . morris film describes and show the humiliation and the nude prisoner cuff in stress position or force to masturbate or pile on top of each other with bag or woman underpants on their head while the man they call gilligan in the fringed blanket with the conical hat stand on a box with fake electrical wiring to his finger while the howl dog terrify a squatting naked man and bite another leg while the corpse of a man beaten to death pack in bag of ice . the image and both still and some fragment of videotape and have a dramatic and quickly sicken effect . the circumstance of their taking be thoroughly explain . but the result be disappointingly narrow and obsessive and because morris have allow the low ranking american implicate by the picture and the majority of them concern only with their own fate and future and to be the dominant voice of the film . the exception be a crude but more experienced interrogator and a precise but morally numb military investigator and and the angry general janis karpinski who be scapegoated because she be commander of the mp . rory kennedy the ghost of abu ghraib and produce for hbo last year and have already present all this information about the photo scandal together with the large context morris have leave out . alex gibney taxi to the dark side thoroughly explore the large implication the responsibility that go all the way up and the distribution of prison abuse throughout afghanistan and iran and guantánamo and the violation of international law and the inadequacy of torture a an interrogation device . by specifically focus on the beating and death of the taxi driver name dilawar at the bagram prison in afghanistan gibney show much more detail than morris about the specific of one prisoner and the full extent of the physical brutality of u interrogator and guard . anyone come to morris film from kennedy and gibney will find it incomplete . standard operate procedure doesn not follow up on any iraqi . perhaps because morris mostly unheard question be aggressive and his talk head be always on the defensive and repeat that they be only soften up the prisoner a instructed . lynndie england protest that she be in love with her bos and charles graner and and just do what he say . they do admit their process include sleep deprivation and hypothermia and loud noise and and also and when they lose patience or just felt like it and random physical abuse . we learn from the more experienced interrogator that his young associate be useless with high value prisoner . we also learn that no worthwhile information come out of interrogation at the prison . karpinski explain how heavily overpopulate her prison become and any suspect once hold hard to release . morris commits several serious stylistic error . he introduce fake basement tape video reenactment ( a device he have use before ) to augment the visuals of the abu ghraib abuse close ups of prisoner body and blood drip on a uniform and key go into a lock so that after a while you aren not sure what be real and what be fake . the genuine image need no enhancement and and this confusion be a terrible mistake . the score by danny elfman with it heavy hand drumbeat sound introduces frantic melodrama and also superfluous and in bad taste . in fact morris material and which ought to have be allow to speak for itself and be permeate by the banality of evil . the word of the mp and include megan ambuhl and javal davis and and jeremy sivitz and as well a and most notably in this context and the two woman amateur photographer and lynndie england and sabrina harman and be notable for their lack of affect . there be no drama about them . apart for one or two shaky expression of doubt and awareness that all this wasn not right and especially on the part of sabrina harmon and write to her wife katie back home and they tend to speak a people go about what they believe to be their job while do what others do and what everybody know be be do at abu ghraib . except and it seem and general karpinski and because she be travel from one prison to another and and say the ugliness be hide from her . perhaps it be . there not much effort to question or puncture any of this testimony . the film title refers to the army investigator conclusion that the majority of the photographed humiliation and punishment be standard operating procedure and only certain scene of physical injury could be classify a document crime . this indulgence be something morris do not explore far and however . taxi to the dark side go much more thoroughly into the issue of torture . the distinction between torture and humiliation morris alludes to seem less important than how the whole pattern of sordid conduct at the prison get start and a topic standard operate procedure doesn not investigate . we have just have president bush admission that he know and approve high level meeting inside the white house on harsh interrogation tactic . morris do not set the abu ghraib scandal within this large framework . we do hear that child be imprison and that there be child rap by prisoner and the prisoner be beat and injure for that . be briefly tell that method be transfer to abu ghraib from guantánamo . it all preface by a description of what a disgust place abu ghraib be when the mp and other american staff come to live there with constant bombardment and because and in violation of international law ( but we be not tell that ) abu ghraib be not behind the line . this be present elsewhere by some a mitigating circumstance . the low ranking abu ghraib scandal scapegoat be not only just follow order ( or s. o. p. ) while they be under stress . stuff happen . here again and morris doesn not connect the dot . some will like that . the much admire and often awarded morris be a sacred cow . but this time his result seem more repulsive than effective .