23 November 2005

Because it's about time Hollywood took a strong stand against corporations

Syriana out today in limited release is described in the closing of Kenneth Turan's L.A. Times review thusly:
This overarching focus on enhancing reality is in the service of making us believe that what we're seeing on screen in "Syriana" just might be happening at this very moment, that a shadowy, amoral cabal of untouchable Washington power brokers might be pulling the strings that control the world.

This is conspiracy-theory filmmaking of the most bravura kind, but if only a fraction of its suppositions are true, we — and the world — are in a world of trouble.
What a load of whatever substance you most wish to stay far away and upwind from.

I'm sure a right of center example of 'conspiracy-theory filmmaking' would get a fair shake from Mr. Turan (and I'm fairly certain that was a flying pig I saw cross my peripheral vision the other day). I'm just as sure all the positive reviews for this film are based on the movie and not the message so even people who don't believe that Haliburton/Exxon/(insert evil corporate entity here) are the font of all evil will love the bravura performances and sharp writing,. . . . . . .or not.

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