News for
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)

photos

board

trailer

details

1 article from 2008

16 May 2008 8:43 PM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news

After the release of his Standard Operating Procedures, the director Errol Morris writes me: This movie seems to have incited controversy, almost as if I broke some sort of rule or series of rules. The ultimate mystery is people. They are often mysteries not only to others but to themselves. Almost everyone wants to dismiss the bad apples rather than look at them, as if there is nothing inherently interesting in their stories. Oh well. The words "to themselves" hold the key.

None of the opinions in the film are owned by Morris. They belong to the people on the screen, who actually appear in the infamous photographs from Abu Ghraib. There are a few very brief off-screen questions by Morris ("That was on your birthday?") but they're not penetrating, do not suggest opinions, are the sorts of things any attentive listener would say. Most of the reviews of the film get this right.

Roger Ebert

1 article from 2008