"...Corruption is our protection. Corruption is what keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around here instead of fighting each other for scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win."
Syriana is a transnational political thriller which uses the international oil industry as the chief catalyst. The film utilises the hyperlink form of filmmaking where seemingly unrelated incidents converge to form a common tale. Definetly the 'whole is more than the sum of its parts.
George Clooney is great as Bob Barnes,a CIA undercover agent. His character is based on Robert Baer, a real life longtime CIA man with varied experience in the Persian gulf.
Matt Damon, Jeffery Wright, Mazhar Munir and Alexander Siddig are great in their roles. It does have shades of Traffic but Syriana provides a human, economic and political insight into varied aspects of the oil industry.
