Wednesday, January 10, 2007

I Was Going To Watch Syriana

... but then the Crack Den re-opened!

Dang.

Guess kitty pixels are comin'.

Movin' ones.

UPDATE: No, I will watch Syriana. Dang... just ate dinner, and realized how dog-tired I am. Need a good eight hours, tonight.

Movie, bed, in that order.
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2 comments :

Plum Pudding said...

Please explain the film to me afterwards. There's a lot in it i just didn't get. I'm an intelligent person, i think, but damn this one ain't easy to get. Dead or alive at the end?

bonne nuit JP, Curly and LE

Pen Ultimate said...

Clooney's "Bob" caharcter? Definitely dead. They were packing up his office at the end... and no one was really sad at the CIA to see him go. They were worried about his whistleblower status over the missing missile.

As near as I can tell (before coffee, mind you), the main thrust of the film was that Siddig's character was the decent guy, who, had he become emir, would have transformed his country's social structure, but at the cost of rejecting U.S. involvement in their energy reserves (China had bid higher for the reserves). The CIA had him taken out because a coup was underway, where Siddig had the support of a majority of the military generals, and the convoy was on the way to a confrontation with Siddig's character's younger brother (who had just been named emir).

More later tonight, after coffee and brain digestion. I'd like to watch it again, just to see what nuances I missed the first time. I could NOT watch the torture part, though.
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