Syriana Review by B Movie Ben (5 Stars)

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Starring:
George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Peet, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig, Mazhar Munir

Directed By:
Stephen Gaghan

Written By:
Stephen Gaghan

Syriana (2005)

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Movie Review by B Movie Ben

July 30th, 2007

Oil and terrorism

Danny Dalton: Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale, thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole, make a name for himself, maybe get elected some two-bit, congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here. No, I tell you. No, sir. Corruption charges! Corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win. (Just ask Tom Delay)

That is it in a nutshell. Although I had to watch this film twice to really get it all. Corruption goes on in many forms and it is just the way business is run. It is not in our interests, at least those of the oil industry, to have real democracy in the Middle East. So, whenever progressive leaders rise up, they must be dealt with.

George Clooney is fantastic an an over-the-hill CIA operative who dreams of a desk job are crashing around him on his last job.

Matt Damon is also very good as a liberal energy speculator who is pushing the progressive agenda, but runs afoul of the greedy oil baron (Chris Cooper).

Along with the oil story is the story of migrant Pakistani workers and how they are caught in the middle, and how this sometimes forces them to do things in desperation, You will learn a lot about how oil dominates US foreign policy, but you will also see the struggles within Middle Eastern countries to chart a path away from the rock and the hard place of Western domination and fundamentalist theocracy.

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