Standard Operating Procedure

When you see the picture, you don’t see outside the frame. The dark side of the “nice guys". Hard to say which is more amazing Morris’ choice of topic or its delivery, which in no way suffers from talking heads. It’s fascinating how he manages to make people tell him even what they don’t want to reveal, I sit there gobsmacked at how he’s not afraid let the camera do the work and to record details of those questioned, which often gives away more about them than a thousand words. And I just love his cooperation with top composers. This applied to his previous work and it applies here too. Simply the exact opposite of flashy, technicolor bullshit with nothing to say that have the cheek to call themselves documentaries. (15.08.2009)