Syriana

I'll be honest, this movie made me feel dumb. I consider myself fairly worldly and aware of most current events in the world (probably more that the average person), but apparently I needed to know more about the oil industry and middle east politics to be able to watch this film. At least thats the impression I got. Its been a long time since I have been this confused by a movie. It became a tiresome guessing game by the end of the film to try and decipher who was being talked about and which company was doing what. Yet, all that being said, I still think that the movie deserved most of the nominations and such it recieved. What I could pull from the storyline was very good. I would like to say that Syriana is a movie that everyone should try to watch to understand better how things really work in the world, but that would be a real stretch, because I know there are lots of people who would never be able to finish it (or even understand it if they did). Whether it was good or not I think it's important that these type of political movies are made to bring these type of issues to the attention of the mainstream