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Syriana: Everything Connected!

A phrase that you'll read on the Poster of the film! I Looked at it...while I was ushered in...and with the first moment in the film..I knew that this phrase will be our guide out to interpret this Oscar -winning film!
I wondered a lot about the meaning of "Syriana" till I reached this one " It’s a CIA code name for a highly unstable geopolitical situation, a place where you find the largest oil reserves. It’s a place populated by unemployed educated professionals, extremely poor laborers who often turn into fundamentalists and terrorists with nothing to lose. It’s a small group of countries ruled by thugs and fanatics, and subject to the ruthless intrusions of world powers. Greedy corporations and all types of high level flimflam executives are willing to do anything to get a piece of the black gold"

Everything is connected: Tahran, USA, Beirut, The Gulf.............!

Everything is Connected: Arab princes, CIA agents, Hezbollah leaders, oil executives, Islamic terrorists......!

The film runs in different tracks that you have to trace them,,,and fill in the gap!

Two Arab princes rivaling over the rule over the country : America's puppet...and the other is Reformer who wishes to grant his people liberty and freedom........No need to say that the latter is imposing '' a threat " on you US. Policies in the Middle East and in particular, Oil map!

A blinded CIA agent, Bob (George Clooney), planted in Muslim and Arab countries to kill , to break through their security systems!

A Pakistani , Wasim , is dismissed from his work now due to the Oil contract with a Chinese company.. He is now nurtured by Islamic terrorist, a Blue-eyed Egyptian (Amr Waked) ,,with him..he finds the weapon as his ultimate goal of life..and you know the rest!

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An explosion ~ in the middle of the sea...you won't see a single blood drop...but the explosion echoes and Wasim's blood states the the horrible fact!

He ends a video tape.. reading his will........and More Wasims are watching it!

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Bob, the CIA agent, discovers the illusionary world he's been living in...and how US policies "nurtured " him with false slogans.......and he dies in an attempt to save the Arab Prince whom CIA kills!

Bob is killed by friend fire......

Wasim is alsokilled by a friend weapon..whom Islamic terrorist got from Bob himself........!

See?! Everything is really connected!!!!

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“We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don’t wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.”

- Stephen Gaghan (the Director)

N.B> The movie is really worth watching....it bears more than what I alluded to of course..especially the interwoven tales of Oil industry....! "The film will get under your skin....and stay with you longer"...so....if you fear to get messed up....and in need of answers..and afraid to fall into depression and then revoLting and crying "Enough"...an advice : watch Pink Panther instead...:)