With the war looming in Iraq and the current political discourse on America's dependency on foreign oil in a post-9/11 world, it makes it all more relevant to watch Syriana, a serious movie about the politics of oil. Last friday, l went to see the movie with Camille and Brian. My take on the movie is mixed. As you would expect, this movie relates to the human fragility of greed. In the struggle for wealth and power, tragedies and betrayals are inevitably the norm not the exception. I enjoy this aspect of the movie where I am able to step in the vast, complex world of the most powerful industry on Earth. I also like the shuffling of between scenes of lawyers and oil men brokering deals in Washington and the disenfranchised Pakistani migrant workers in the Middle East However, there are 2 things that I don't like about this movie. While I don't see the type of self-righteousness (something that I detest) that is often pervasive in many political tinted movies, I do find several aspects of the movie largely exaggerated. Another problem that I have with this movie is the large number of storylines that unfolds during the movie although at the end of the movie, the storylines were weaved together quite nicely. Nonetheless, you can get a quite lost in the middle of the movie especially with such a complex background and numerous disparate characters to contend with. Overall I enjoy the movie as it makes me think about the questions of U.S. energy and foreign policies in a post-9//11 world. I give it a 70% rating.

12/11/2005 2:22:02 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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