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In Reply to: Syriana worthwhile posted by edta on December 25, 2005 at 15:30:33:
I think it was a worthwhile film intellectually but had little in the way of pacing or "film" qualities that make it a great movie. I think it has a solid message and the Damon / Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir to the Trekkies) was interesting. I felt it never gave us a character to get to know. Cold and Aloof but at the same time intellectually interesting - and probably once again correct on how American Foreign affairs operates while not exactly being kind to the middle east.Still a good movie -- probably one of the better ones of the year but then i have not seen that many this year.
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Pretty radical IMO.
Well it's not really a surprise or something most educated people are unaware of. There is nothing "nice" about america's foreign policy and there is 'nothing' in it that will help preserve the interests of those other countries in any way shape or form.A film's taks is to make it entertaining and I don't think Syriana really succeeds in the task. It's sort of shooting everywhere hoping to hit.
What I did find interesting was Siddig's character who responds to the acusation that you had all this money why didn;t you spend any of it on infrastructure and education etc etc instead of buying palaces. His response and that scene in general renewed my interest in the entire film. Oddly I kept thinking about Lawrence of Arabia and strangely enough the novel King Leopold's Ghost (a book that REALLY needs to be made into a film).
Sometimes I think back to my University Psychology professor who argued that a full 30% of the population borders on sociopathic tendencies and general lack of remorse or moral center. I get the sense that most of these 30% are either working in politics or big corporations such as every oil company, every drug company, every gun or bullit producing maker or any miliatray field whatsover (except most of the the soldiers) and the WTO.
It held my interest. There were several mysteries being unwound.The missile and the Pakistanis was probably the least mysterious and the worst developed. But it might have taken a whole movie to do this one justice. For instance going back to Pakistan and showing how they lived there, the conditions there.
There's a lot in this movie and I'm tempted to see it again. Barnes' mission, was he sent there to be murdered? It seemed so to me.
What about his threat against Whiting? Was that the reason he was given his passports back? Was Whiting in with CIA and did they all know what Barnes would do?
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