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[SuperFly]

Two paws up, go see it when it gets to Korea.


It's running out, and everything is connected.





http://syrianamovie.warnerbros.com/

[SuperFly]

Jesus f-in christ, there's an OIL TANKER named the Condoleezza Rice


It was just decommisioned. Just saw a special presentation on A & E about this movie.

[Paddycakes]

I just saw "Syriana" too.

It's really good, although it bored my wife to tears.

If you're a political junkie it's a must see

It's very similar in style to "Traffic".

If you're a US soldier, I doubt you'll want to see this one though. It will make it harder to spew the required rhetoric about freedom and democracy with a straight face...

[SuperFly]

What he said.

The A&E special on SYRIANA was even better! Damn! The whole Chinese thing was really good. No more talk about it here though, don't want to kill it for anyone.

[drcrazy]

[Paddycakes]

It refers to oil, and how in the larger scheme of things the various sub-stories in the movie ultimately coalesce.

I personally think the phrase "Everything is Connected" diminishes the poster a bit; it's true, yes, but it makes the movie sound like some absurdist dystopion future type movie where emotions are outlawed or something... perhaps the phrase is just too blunt for a movie that is so layered and complex.

Why am I rambling about this???

[RokofKangnam]

[SuperFly]

You gotta see the movie man.

[Homer]

Great movie indeed!

[Bee Positive]

I haven't seen it yet, and so hesitate to comment.

The trailer troubled me, though.

This flick seems to be putting forward the "peak oil" myth, ie, conditioning the public to believe that "fossil fuels" are rapidly running out, that price run-ups are thus inevitable, and that wars over oil are unavoidable.

(Warring for oil is preposterous on the face of it: why not just buy the stuff? America is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on this Iraq fiasco, not to mention thousands of lives and seriously compromised military readiness, WITHOUT getting a better deal on oil. OK, get it? Enough said?)

By CLOAKING its sinsiter and deceitful message in anti-establishment guise, the film plays trojan horse.

American propaganda is exceedingly subtle in this way.

Make no mistake, Americans are not nearly as dumb as they pretend to be. OK, so maybe they can't read and write too well, but they've got STREET SMARTS.

Hollywood lies like nobody's business. It does so by offering you something that LOOKS GOOD, something you as a thougtful, educated person SHOULD want to take, while at the same time implanting a PRO-establishment meme in your psyche.

Don't believe it, folks. Oil is generated abiotically from deep below the surface of the earth, and will remain abundantly available for many, many centuries to come.

The Anglo-American attempt at subduing the entire earth will go on and on and on, meanwhile--until finally pushed too far, at which point, expect trouble. America is FAR from being the world's only superpower, as Russia or China will prove today or tomorrow if pressed.

And Iran won't be any pushover, either. The great Anglo-American march of folly may just run out of stamina once and forever on the road to Teheran.

"You heard it here first!"



BEE POSITIVE

[Homer]

[Bee Positive]

[EFLtrainer]

[Homer]

trainer...that was the intent of my response to the Bee theory becomes reality post.

Bee..best I can do?

Well...why would I bother with my best when you provide such amusing self-parody?

[Bee Positive]