Abstract
When it comes to shedding light on the hidden facts of the American use of torture at Abu Ghraib or elsewhere, Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure (2008), Rory Kennedy's Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) represent major interventions into the contemporary political landscape, and their success is unqualified. They are successful in attacking the ideology of torture because they address it on the level of ideology. Pursuing the facts, however, leads these documentaries to miss the most disturbing aspect of the Abu Ghraib photos: the smiles on the faces of the torturers. The way each documentary deals with the issue (or avoids it) expresses the way that enjoyment acts as a stain that points to the symbolic failure of the violence of torture.
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