'Syriana' Explores Complexities of Oil Game by Showing Behavior of Players

Augusta Chronicle, The › December 13, 2005

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Summary

Syriana is an endlessly fascinating movie about oil and money, America and China, traders and spies, the Persian Gulf states and Texas, reform and revenge, bribery and betrayal. Its interlocking stories come down to one thing: There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead.

The movie seems to take sides, but take a step back and look again. It finds all of the players in the oil game corrupt and compromised, and even provides a brilliant speech in defense of corruption by a Texas oil man (Tim Blake Nelson). This isn't about Left and Right but about Have and Have Not.

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'Syriana' Explores Complexities of Oil Game by Showing Behavior of Players

The movie begins with one of the gulf states signing a deal to supply its oil to China. This comes as a strategic defeat for Connex, a Texas-based oil compa...

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