The characters are not one-dimensional: all represent shadings of good and bad, and all can be corrupted by the system of Oil at Any Price. It is a major motion picture that actually expects its audience to think very hard. Refresh and try again.We’d love your help. Underexplaining sometimes to a fault, pic keeps the viewer straining to keep tabs on the identities, relationships and allegiances among the dozens of characters (explanatory titles at least identify locations), but while many post-screening discussions will feature “Did you get what was going on there?”-type queries, the disparate threads come together with undeniable power and reasonable clarity by the end.It’s all about those old standbys, power and money, but the fascination is in the details — the manipulations, betrayals, deceit and tragedies, the immoral extremes to which true believers (in religion, capitalism, the principles of government) will go and at what human cost. And the cast -- I mean, wow. 12/14/05: David: That makes two of us.
The Gulf prince is an exception to the general rule: there are no,The "fat George Clooney" as Bob Barnes, veteran CIA operative.And in perhaps the most interesting plotline, a highly sympathetic young Pakistani character known only as Wasim (excellently played by young British-Kashmiri actor Mazhar Munir) becomes a suicide bomber. Don't let the stone-faced (and often confusing!)
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Will he be the next emir?Of course, all this looks less radical from elsewhere: Iranian writer Amir Taheri argues that the type of conspiracy-theorising offered by,For a western film-viewer, by contrast, this film along with some other recent productions such as,Gaghan did months of research in the region with former CIA agent Bob Baer, whose book.So it's not surprising that this movie bursts with subplots (notably, every major character has a troubled relationship with a father or a son). It is. He is the current national security affairs analyst for CNN.Is this really the title a Robert Baer book? Then we see nothing but white light. To create our...To see what your friends thought of this book,Syriana, based on the book by Robert Baer.After seeing the movie, I had to read the book to make sense of what I saw. And `Syriana' is a think tank term--people want to create this fake country to help our oil interests, which does, at the end of the day.
Fun Fact: Few movie casts include more Oscar-winning or -nominated acting talent than this one. The film started out somewhat confusing, but that is not uncommon in the action/thriller genre. A film that likens a Muslim suicide bombing to a clandestine missile attack is risky enough. Syriana Production: A Warner Bros. release presented in association with Participant Prods. There are four parts which intertwine which can be confusing.A lot better then the movie but they always are.
This is of course typical of any classical Hollywood narrative (the imaginary solution to the contradictory problem), but what makes Syriana interesting (but not good) is how it refuses to even mention environmental solutions at all (whether you believe in them or not is irrelevant , but its glaring omission here can only be subscribed to the whole "within the POV of the characters it chose").
This film is particularly interesting because it is "mainstream". GIVE Syriana its due.