Really good, thought-provoking movie. The basic plot isn't very original, but the specific substance is fresh. Good acting from a fine ensemble cast. Gaghan adds just enough personal information to each character's back story to make you care without spinning off on tangents. Way, way, way better than Traffic.
Post Carbon Institute Launches New Publicity Campaign Linked to "Syriana" National Grassroots Campaign to Spread Awareness of Peak Oil to "Syriana" Audiences To further raise the awareness among Syriana audiences that oil supply disruptions are coming and that preparations urgently need to begin locally, Post Carbon Institute (postcarbon.org) is mobilizing volunteers around the country to distribute catchy flyers to moviegoers before and after the film. (PRWEB) December 16, 2005 -- Our tragic reliance on oil is grimly portrayed in the new film Syriana, which depicts $20 per gallon gas, skyrocketing food costs, and escalating global terrorism in the face of declining fossil fuel reserves. With respect to energy scarcity, the plot of the movie is much more realistic than most people realize. Ever-higher oil costs will become the norm for Americans as world production passes its inevitable peak, which many analysts think will occur within two to five years. Syriana couldn't hit theaters at a more appropriate time with Americans now enduring painful gas prices at the pump and growing anxiety over terrorism and the war in Iraq. "Syriana is a portal into our future. The film will soften up the American public for the coming oil price shocks and the early ramifications of the end of cheap oil," said David Room, Director of Policy and Mobilization for Post Carbon Institute (www.postcarbon.org), a nonprofit organization that works for the transition to the post-petroleum future. "Post Carbon Institute applauds Participant Productions for making such a timely film on the geopolitics of energy scarcity and initiating their Oil Change campaign." After "peak oil" - the point at which the rate of global oil extraction reaches its highest level and then goes into inexorable decline - some of the growing demand for petroleum and the multitude of products for which it is used will necessarily go unsatisfied. Oil scarcity will also increase pressure on supplies and raise the price of America's second most important energy source, North American natural gas, which is already strained to its limits despite recent mild winters. Federal policymakers are beginning to acknowledge the serious need to shift from our dangerous dependence on oil and natural gas. Former State Dept. Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson recently said: "We have an economy and a society that is built on the consumption of [oil and natural gas . We better get fast at work changing the foundation." A new bipartisan Peak Oil Caucus has just formed in the U.S. House of Representatives, calling for the establishment of an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of urgency that was incorporated in the 'Man on the Moon' project to address the inevitable challenges of peak oil. To further raise the awareness among Syriana audiences that oil supply disruptions are coming and that preparations urgently need to begin locally, Post Carbon Institute (www.postcarbon.org) is mobilizing volunteers around the country to distribute catchy flyers to moviegoers before and after the film. The flyers link back to a website (http://www.postcarbon.org/syriana) that provides more information and downloadable flyers. Syriana, which The New York Times calls "one of the best geopolitical thrillers in a very long time," debuts today in theaters. For further information on peak oil and Post Carbon Institute's "Peak Oil: The Reality Behind Syriana Campaign," visit http://www.postcarbon.org/syriana. ### Press Contact: David Room Company Name: POST CARBON INSTITUTE Phone: 510 291 4224 Website: http://www.postcarbon.org/syriana More Information: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb320168.htm
An excellent film. Clooney makes another great one! This movie was one of the most liberal and anti-Establishment films that I have seen in a long time. We need more films like this one.
Yeah not a big fan of the way this was directed. They needed to make some very explicit connections and minimize how much they were trying to transmit at one time. Baer's books are so HUGE and the info is intense...they tried to cram too much in and, in my opinion it's overloaded .
man i saw the film and didnt understand shit of it... after thinking about it and trying to understand how everything worked together i got it... once i got it though, it seemed to have a good message and stuff. its verry true to current day events.
