Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by RGA (A) on December 26, 2005 at 19:30:38

In Reply to: Message: USA may be the bad guys. posted by edta on December 25, 2005 at 19:14:08:

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.