anyone seen syriana?

[IMP]

saw syriana today. curious what others thought...both on the movie as well as the content.

[IMP]

btw, i found a mistake (or whatever you want to call it) in the movie.

[botswana]

I saw it. I liked it pretty well, but it didn't leave any lasting impression on me. I didn't learn as much/the movie didn't make me think as much as I expected. What is the mistake?

[botswana]

Thanks for the PM, I MUST PASS - I agree it was a mistake -unlike LOST or ALIAS where it would have been extremely well thought out and I'd waste time trying to understand what it all meant.

[IMP]

Originally Posted by botswana

Thanks for the PM, I MUST PASS - I agree it was a mistake -unlike LOST or ALIAS where it would have been extremely well thought out and I'd waste time trying to understand what it all meant.

lol. thanks. do you recall what i PMed you about?

[Allie]

I saw it the other day. Not the movie to see some night when you're tired -- I don't mind subtitled stuff -- but I kept dozing off. Wasn't my favorite movie, but I've definately seen worse!

Ms. IMUSTPASS, what was the mistake? I liked this movie a lot.

[IMP]

pm you mac. i am indifferent to this movie. there was a lot that went over my head...i was confused at who was good, who was bad, who worked for who, who didnt like who, etc etc.

Originally Posted by I MUST PASS

pm you mac. i am indifferent to this movie. there was a lot that went over my head...i was confused at who was good, who was bad, who worked for who, who didnt like who, etc etc.

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Ms. I MUST PASS,

Here's my take on it. There were a couple of plot threads that weren't really directly related but did tie together. George Clooney's theme as CIA agent sent to assassiate the older Prince of (Iran?) was basically that the younger prince was Pro-USA, stupid and easily controllable, the older son Anti-USA, smart and a better leader, while being pro-China. When the CIA failed because their setup man, Mussawi, was a double agent, they had to distance themselves from Clooney so as not to place any blame on them. When the older son refused to back down, we blew him up at the end with a missle. Matt Damon was just an ignorant consultant who was hoping to make his company a ton of money. He was given the job out of pity after his son was electricuted in the swimming pool of the Prince's estate because of a broken pool light (not realistic in my opinion).

The Pakistani young men were pawns used as suicide bombers. They had nothing to lose as they couldn't find work and were desperate to improve the lives of their families. The Muslims who recruited them brainwashed them into thinking their sacrifice would make everythign right for their families. They blew up the oil tanker because their blamed Connex-Kaline for the loss of their jobs and welfare.

The most complicated theme was that involving the merger. A tiny oil company (Kaline) won the rights to Khazistan and everyone immediately expected bribery and corruption. Kaline then tried to merge with the bigger Connex but if Kaline had done illegal stuff, the merge would be voided. Bennet, the black lawyer, was instructed by "the man pulling all the strings" (the oldest man who Clooney threatened to kill at that dinner) to investigate the merger, find the corruption before the feds do, and somehow fix it since this merger was in the USA's best intersts. This old man I think worked for the government but he was involved in all the oil deals. Bennet found a bribery involving Dalton, who I believe owned a tiny company that was bought by Kaline. Since Dalton was separate from Connex-Kaline they could offer him as a sacrifice without jeopardizing their deal but they needed something else. At the BBQ, the CEO of Kaline gave to Bennet the severed head of one of their senior partners in his firm stating how he was involved with some corrupt deals involing nuclear power with Iran? Those two people were enough and they turned them both in, thus the merger would go through.

What I wasn't certain of is if the Khazistan deal was also the young Prince's deal with the USA. It kind of makes sense since the young Prince was at the dinner party at the end of the movie celebrating the Connex-Kaline deal but when Matt Damon was explaining to the older prince, how he could change their oil distribution paths, it wouldn't make sense if they were Khazistan as their country borded the Ocean in the South and Khazistan doesn't fit that requirement, but Iran does...so were the princes from Iran or Khazistan or Lebanon (doubtful) or some other country?

[Michel de Nostradamus]

I thought the Prince was a Saudi, but I know little about the Middle East.
I felt sadness for the young Pakistani men and their plight.
It makes me question why I am not satisfied with what I have, when there are many others who have less.