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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...:)

salam alikom wa rahmatu Allahi wa barkatu

I watched today "El Zoga el Thanya" for the brilliant Salah Mansour,,and Shukri Sarhan...and the lovely Soad Hosni..and Sana'a Gameel! I laughed at some parts... I was diving into this world...see and touch corruption !

But was this all for entertainment?! I don't think so....!

It's my pleasure to go on weekends to Cinema...On Thursday ...my best friend argues with me which film we'll choose......we meet..watch the film..then we give ourselves a moment to recollect what we have watched..what I think ..... what my reaction is...then......we'd sit down together...and deliver what I have absorbed ! what touched me most...!

Did the film I watch value the mentality of the spectator and address it? or is it just ridiculing his mind?!

Am I able to see through the writer's character...and the director's point of view? Or am I led astray?!

Didn't "leilet sokoot Baghdad" , "Dam el Ghazal", "Munich", "Syriana" have their effect on me?!
didn't they express a reality we're living in some way or another,,,,?!

Is the cinema just minimised to be a number of scenes...people moving....?!

Are Hollywood movies just a tool for entertaining the spoiled youth? was Fahernheit 9/11 so?!

I remember 6 years ago..I watched the cartoon feature film.."Chicken Run",,,and Mel Gibson was participating in that Movie...! It's about the American Chicken that comes to another farm...whose chicken wants freedom...so he tries to help them on their revolt ...and they mistakenly think he can teach them how to fly....the scenes on which he teaches them how to fly.,...and it's futile of course...is really comic...!

Wasn't that movie ridiculing the unbreakable image of the American hero...who is God-sent to the universe to grant liberty and freedom...?!

By the end of the movie...the Chicken had to depend on themselves not on the "false" hero..who needed help himself...!


Such films...either reflect the things they lack and their illusion...or their final resolution to unblind themselves and see what is going in the world around them~!

Didn't Spielberg..Redley Scott...Michael Moore....and others choose to show to the world their stance of what's going on around them?!

well...This is what instigates me to go and watch all sorts of movies and now....I will have to think about next week's movie :)