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March 08
Okay, so you may hate Errol Morris (lookin’ at you, Dicker!), but you should also see Standard Operating Procedure, the new documentary about Abu Ghraib and those who recorded the weird n’ wacky stuff that went on there. The New Yorker ran a story last week about the photos that were taken by Sabrina Harman, who is responsible for most of the photos you’ve seen, including this iconic one:
Harman first started snapping pictures just because—the story also references a series she did with a mummified kitten’s head—but later began to document the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib out of disgust and moral obligation. It’s a great thing that she did, otherwise the world would probably have no clue.
Posted by: Aaron Retka in Film | Permalink
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I really thought that NY’er piece was fantastic so I’ll see how Errol Morris fucks this one up. I’m sure Philip Gourevtich had everything to do with the NY’er piece. Mainly cause it had some nuances, something EM is entirely incapable of. What I liked about the piece was how you got the sense of how over the course of a year, atrocities became commonplace in Abu Ghraib. It’s easy, I think, to pass judgment on what they did but I can easily see how it became normalized.