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Varese Sarabande will release the album for Errol Morris’ Elfman-scored documentary “S.O.P.” on May 6. Their press release mentions nothing about the music, such as how it is an adaptation of “Serenada Schizophrana/”
Here is the press release:
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Original Motion Picture SoundtrackMusic Composed by Danny Elfman
Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed America’s image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behavior of a few bad apples? We set out to examine the context of these photographs. Why were they taken? What was happening outside the frame? We talked directly to the soldiers who took the photographs and who were in the photographs. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Over two years of investigation, we amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs. The story of Abu Ghraib is still shrouded in moral ambiguity, but it is clear what happened there. The Abu Ghraib photographs serve as both an exposé and a cover-up. An exposé, because the photographs offer us a glimpse of the horror of Abu Ghraib; and a cover-up because they convinced journalists and readers they had seen everything, that there was no need to look further. In recent news reports, we have learned about the destruction of the Abu Zubaydah interrogation tapes. A cover-up. It has been front-page news. But the cover-up at Abu Ghraib involved thousands of prisoners and hundreds of soldiers. We are still learning about the extent of it. Many journalists have asked about the smoking gun of Abu Ghraib. It is the wrong question. As Philip Gourevitch has commented, Abu Ghraib is the smoking gun. The underlying question that we still have not resolved, four years after the scandal: how could American values become so compromised that Abu Ghraib and the subsequent cover-up could happen?
Written and Directed by Errol Morris, this probing documentary features an original score by composer Danny Elfman.
Winner of the Silver Berlin Bear Award at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.
Sony Pictures Classics opens Standard Operating Procedure on April 25.
Varèse Sarabande Catalog #: 302 066 897 2
Release Date: 05/06/08See the front and back cover art here: http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=vsd%2D302%2D066%2D897%2D2
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