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In Reply to: Don't you hate it when business executives are cartoonized? Don't you expect... posted by clarkjohnsen on December 10, 2005 at 07:34:54:
"Syriana has a lot of big, important things to say about big, important things... It's as earnestly, politically left-leaning as Jarhead is coyly apolitical; it's also the kind of movie that requires a viewer to work actively for comprehension, and to chalk up any lack of same to his or her own deficiency in the face of something so evidently smart."...and there's no reason given for the double-dealing, power plays, and American capitalist thuggery that shape the landscape. (What little humanity this trio of clueless, overmatched American men retains is conferred by fleeting interaction with kin...).
"While those with an eye for vast left-wing conspiracies are welcome to believe that Gaghan planned all along to make a movie shaped like a big-picture that fails to take into account small-picture human needs, I am not one of those conspiracy junkies; I think the absence of soul is just the filmmaker's big gaffe."
B-
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum
Other reviews too remarked on the cartoonish quality of the oily oil men. It's all so simple, when businessmen are the baddies.
clark
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Follow Ups
- Addendum: A tough review - clarkjohnsen 08:39:27 12/10/05 (6)
- Sounds like she wasn't paying close attention - sjb 19:33:21 12/10/05 (4)
- "You... should try and un-makeup your mind that you won't like it." You missed my point entirely. - clarkjohnsen 12:41:30 12/11/05 (3)
- they are not actually hateful in this movie - tunenut 13:35:43 12/11/05 (2)
- The only thing the executives are "guilty" of in the picture is acting - tinear 13:47:14 12/11/05 (0)
- Thanks! Good to know, and to have an even-keeled response. nt - clarkjohnsen 13:46:38 12/11/05 (0)
- Well, that's it then, isn't it? Some folks don't like it, Clark hasn't seen it - tinear 11:49:31 12/10/05 (0)
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