Syriana : Another Disturbing Affair.
It looks like not just George Bush and his politicians along with American MNCs are worried about Middle East. Hollywood also is not sitting back, we have had quite a few this year on that volatile region and the 3rd world in particular.
Syriana is another in that line, a politically charged movie of a merger of 2 oil industries set in the backdrop of changing times in the Middle East. The film poses many questions through its characters but most intriguing among them probably is the disillusioned Pakistani teenage worker who falls prey to Islamic militant movements amidst growing unemployment and oppression. It shows how the greed of American oil industries on the backdrop of a power struggle between the two princes of the region has started radical Islam movement in the Middle East providing young men with a feeling of brotherhood in the face of a region they feel has turned its back on them in favour of big business, corruption and power striggles. It is a movie not about good and bad guys, but how bad each one can be.
George Clonney is wonderful as the CIA agent and the other casts also fit it appropriately. Stephen Gaghan is a nice story teller and handles the film quite competently.
Probably this is one of the best movies I have seen in recent months, well, it will be difficult to judge whether this is better than Munich or not. In the end a point to ponder upon is that the vast wealth of the West comes at the cost of people all over the world who will never have a fraction of the comfort those in western countries take for granted. Surely this cannot be the fate of humanity !!!!!!!
It looks like not just George Bush and his politicians along with American MNCs are worried about Middle East. Hollywood also is not sitting back, we have had quite a few this year on that volatile region and the 3rd world in particular.
Syriana is another in that line, a politically charged movie of a merger of 2 oil industries set in the backdrop of changing times in the Middle East. The film poses many questions through its characters but most intriguing among them probably is the disillusioned Pakistani teenage worker who falls prey to Islamic militant movements amidst growing unemployment and oppression. It shows how the greed of American oil industries on the backdrop of a power struggle between the two princes of the region has started radical Islam movement in the Middle East providing young men with a feeling of brotherhood in the face of a region they feel has turned its back on them in favour of big business, corruption and power striggles. It is a movie not about good and bad guys, but how bad each one can be.
George Clonney is wonderful as the CIA agent and the other casts also fit it appropriately. Stephen Gaghan is a nice story teller and handles the film quite competently.
Probably this is one of the best movies I have seen in recent months, well, it will be difficult to judge whether this is better than Munich or not. In the end a point to ponder upon is that the vast wealth of the West comes at the cost of people all over the world who will never have a fraction of the comfort those in western countries take for granted. Surely this cannot be the fate of humanity !!!!!!!
posted by musafir at 11:18 AM
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nice to hear a positive review of Syriana. I saw "memoirs of a geisha" yesterday. that was one of the movies that I was most looking forward to watch as I had read the bood. unfortunately it left me so dissapointed that i dont even want to blog about it.
I had heard mixed opinion about Memoirs of Gheisha, finally I did not manage to see it. However, most of the people who saw Syriana liked it. Of course the events shown there need not be exactly the way things happen, but I would assume it is pretty close to reality.
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