Re: Syriana
cassandra
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Just to play devil's advocate. I found it too complicated narrative-wise and overly simplistic in political and world-view. Anyone who reads the papers and/or this board, knows all that already. And with no characters in which to emotionally invest. Dramaturgically, I would have eliminated several story lines, starting with Matt Damon and his family's.
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Just to play devil's advocate. I found it too complicated narrative-wise and overly simplistic in political and world-view. Anyone who reads the papers and/or this board, knows all that already. And with no characters in which to emotionally invest. Dramaturgically, I would have eliminated several story lines, starting with Matt Damon and his family's.
