FROM ERROL MORRIS, DIRECTOR OF THE FOG OF WAR

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Few filmmakers are better at exploring the moral ambiguities of individuals caught in the relentless tide of history, politics, and fate, than Long Island-born, Academy-award-winning director Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time). In his latest film, Morris turns his probing gaze to the shocking events at Abu Ghraib and the startling photos that exposed them. Using intense analysis of the pictures, Morris looks deeply into what those images both reveal and conceal about what was happening at Abu Ghraib, and the ways that the pictures were used to scapegoat a small number of American soldiers while those purposely working off-screen were never exposed or indicted. Morris’ eye-opening interviews with the US soldiers at the prison (including Lynndie England, Javal Davis, Megan Ambuhl, and Sabrina Harman), their superiors (Janis Karpinski), and the Army investigators who had to decide what was a criminal act as opposed to Standard Operating Procedure, weaves a powerful and very human portrait of how ordinary people can suddenly find themselves capable of committing unspeakable acts. Morris’ film has the rich complexity of a great novel, and is essential viewing for anyone who wants to get past the sloganeering and easy judgments of our politicians. –Dylan Skolnick    USA, 2008, 117 minutes

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