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Documentary Maker: Errol Morris

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:29 am
by Cranius_Archive
There's a new Errol Morris documentary out: Standard Operating Procedure

Morris uses The Interrortron to interview the subjects of the movie.

Fascinating essay by Morris here on the film:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05 ... ous-thing/

"There's one photo that endlessly fascinates me. It's Sabrina Harman with her thumb up smiling over the corpse of an Iraqi prisoner. I looked at the photo and thought, initially, what a monster. I now know she had nothing whatsoever to do with this man's death and she was secretly taking photographs to prove that a murder had occurred and the U.S. military was attempting to cover it up. In fact the picture means something much closer to the opposite of what we think it means."

Documentary Maker: Errol Morris

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:16 am
by Jeremy Clarkson_Archive
Cranius wrote:
Fascinating essay by Morris here on the film:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05 ... ous-thing/

"There's one photo that endlessly fascinates me. It's Sabrina Harman with her thumb up smiling over the corpse of an Iraqi prisoner. I looked at the photo and thought, initially, what a monster. I now know she had nothing whatsoever to do with this man's death and she was secretly taking photographs to prove that a murder had occurred and the U.S. military was attempting to cover it up. In fact the picture means something much closer to the opposite of what we think it means."


Christ Jesus, that was depressing. Do you get off on this stuff or something?

Documentary Maker: Errol Morris

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 10:58 am
by Cranius_Archive
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:Christ Jesus, that was depressing. Do you get off on this stuff or something?


Not as depressing as going to Waterstones at lunchtime and seeing that there was not one, but three Jeremy Clarkson biographies.