Standard Operating Procedure _ Errol Morris interview

[grady]

Originally Posted by chuck

holy crap.

on grady's review - have just watched Taxi to the Dark Side.

i'm stunned. just stunned.

it's out there to torrent - grab it.

Thanks for the nod chuck, I should have elaborated a bit more on Taxi to the Darkside. The film won the best documentary oscar this past year and deserved it.

When I saw Taxi.... I found myself truly nauseous and very uneasy at certain points. It wasn't graphic images, depictions, descriptions or imagery of torture or violence in the film, but the malice and contempt members of the Bush Administration and the US government exhibit in the film towards humans.

Seeing Taxi so closely after Standard Operating Procedure, within roughly five days, I found Taxi to be much better. But then you also see the entire story of SOP in about five minutes or less during the first hour of Taxi... Morris has taken one aspect of the use of torture and made a film out of it. However, I feel that Morris's film and the points he's exploring are not as impacting or encompassing as those points in Taxi to the Darkside.

In the New York Times this weekend there was an article about Morris and his use of paying subjects in Standard Operating Procedure that is worth a read in light of this thread and the other links presented in previous messages.

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