camouflage
gaslit at scale.
A good film, I'm surprised it got made. Alot of critics seemed to think it lost a certain amount of punch because it didn't touch on the invasion of Iraq. I think the decision not to include Iraq in the film was a good one though, it places the US government and the oil-industry in a broader more generic context.
This is how business was done long before even Gulf War One, so the film succeeded in its purpose in telling us about the whole oil-corruption-power thing without becoming a film about the invasion of Iraq. I don't see how Iraq could be mentioned in a film like Syriana without making that film about Iraq and illegal invasions etc, as that particular shit-storm is way too big to be just another strand in this story that could equally have been applied to Nigeria, or Kazakstan, Indonesia or Kuwait.
Syriana is the 'sequel' to Traffic, which tries to expose the narco-trade as Syriana exposes the oil-industry, but I found Traffic boring and hard to follow, but this time the lots of little storylines thing wasn't so annoying.
This is how business was done long before even Gulf War One, so the film succeeded in its purpose in telling us about the whole oil-corruption-power thing without becoming a film about the invasion of Iraq. I don't see how Iraq could be mentioned in a film like Syriana without making that film about Iraq and illegal invasions etc, as that particular shit-storm is way too big to be just another strand in this story that could equally have been applied to Nigeria, or Kazakstan, Indonesia or Kuwait.
Syriana is the 'sequel' to Traffic, which tries to expose the narco-trade as Syriana exposes the oil-industry, but I found Traffic boring and hard to follow, but this time the lots of little storylines thing wasn't so annoying.
