Orange Wednesday and Syriana
Wednesday is a good day for students here in UK. Why? Well, because Odeon offers quite a bargain with cinema tickets: two for the price of one. So one ticket will be something like 2 pounds and something. Compared to the Estonian cinema tickets, admissions here are cheaper even when you buy the full price ticket. Someone should really shake that monopoly over there. Anyway, my story will focus on "Syriana" now...
Overall, I think that it's quite a powerful film, which tries to show how governments and MNC place the ambition to control the world's oil supply. The plot in the beginning seems quite complicated and although I didn't follow every detail of its plot, in the end it's not that hard to follow all the threads coming together.
Basically, what emerges from this movie is a wide web of corruption and self-interest in the oil industry. In one plot thread, the men behind two merging oil companies will stop at nothing to make the merger go through, since the new company will be one of the most powerful in the world. In the meantime the law firm representing the company proves that it's eager to cash in on the company's new economic success. The second thread focuses a power struggle between the two sons of an aging king in a Middle Eastern country, which has attracted the attention of the American government, operating through the CIA. America has a vested interest in which of the king's sons succeeds him to the throne: it wants his younger son, who will continue to relegate his country through the exploration of its natural resources to prevail. And in the film's third thread shows how the struggle for oil feeds the radical Islam movement in the Middle East, providing young lost men with a feeling of brotherhood and some kind of righteousness in the face of a region they feel has turned its back on them.
"Syriana" to my mind was a little bit slow in its tempo- equivalent Hollywood movies are a much faster and more packed with action. On the other hand it can admittedly be somewhat exhausting, especially in the end when You are left with a kind of powerlessness showing that most of us are small nuts in a big play...
PS: Oh, and buy the way, Liverpool lost yesterday. I have my own version of this story of which I will probably write about after the end of the football season in may.
Overall, I think that it's quite a powerful film, which tries to show how governments and MNC place the ambition to control the world's oil supply. The plot in the beginning seems quite complicated and although I didn't follow every detail of its plot, in the end it's not that hard to follow all the threads coming together.
Basically, what emerges from this movie is a wide web of corruption and self-interest in the oil industry. In one plot thread, the men behind two merging oil companies will stop at nothing to make the merger go through, since the new company will be one of the most powerful in the world. In the meantime the law firm representing the company proves that it's eager to cash in on the company's new economic success. The second thread focuses a power struggle between the two sons of an aging king in a Middle Eastern country, which has attracted the attention of the American government, operating through the CIA. America has a vested interest in which of the king's sons succeeds him to the throne: it wants his younger son, who will continue to relegate his country through the exploration of its natural resources to prevail. And in the film's third thread shows how the struggle for oil feeds the radical Islam movement in the Middle East, providing young lost men with a feeling of brotherhood and some kind of righteousness in the face of a region they feel has turned its back on them.
"Syriana" to my mind was a little bit slow in its tempo- equivalent Hollywood movies are a much faster and more packed with action. On the other hand it can admittedly be somewhat exhausting, especially in the end when You are left with a kind of powerlessness showing that most of us are small nuts in a big play...
PS: Oh, and buy the way, Liverpool lost yesterday. I have my own version of this story of which I will probably write about after the end of the football season in may.
posted by Oliver at 1:07 AM
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