Syriana

Fui ver o filme do George Clooney, Syriana. Não posso deixar de o recomendar seja no cinema, seja em DVD, vejam-o!
Não só é um grande filme, com grandes actores e uma excelente história. É um olhar corajoso sobre a relidade da indústria petrolífera e a diplomacia do complexo politico-militar norte-americano. Admiro muito a coragem de Clooney, ele expõe a verdade trágica de viver num país governado por criminosos de guerra que não olham a meios para obter contratos petrolíferos. Este filme mostra se todos soubessem a verdade dos factos do que se passa no Médio Oriente, ninguém apoiava a administração Bush.
Um manifesto anti-guerra, um manifesto anti-imperialista.

Nas próprias palavras de Clooney, "é importante estar no lado certo da história", isto é, no lado da justiça e da verdade. E se a diplomacia americana fosse da paz e não da guerra seria melhor para todos, os árabes e os ocidentais, por isso ele denuncia décadas de "política externa errada para o médio Oriente".

Assim o diz Clooney:

Clooney relishes 'traitor' attacks

US actor and director George Clooney said this morning he was proud to be denounced as unpatriotic for questioning US policy because he wanted to be on "the right side of history."

Interviewed on BBC television's Newsnight about his latest films Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck Clooney said that not only did he accept the right to be attacked for his views but he even relished them.

Clooney, who has weathered attacks since opposing the 2003 Iraq invasion, said at one point that it was "frustrating" to be listed as a "traitor" on a set of playing cards, but he also accepted people's right to free speech.

He later admitted he relished the attacks.

"I think it's important to be on the right side of history," Clooney said.

"I want to be on that deck of cards. And I want to be able to say that they boycotted my films... I want to be able to say I was on the cover of a magazine called a 'traitor,"' he said.

"I'm proud of those because those were badges of honour for me because that was when you did it when it was hard to do," the actor and director said.

Clooney has received critical acclaim for Syriana - about oil politics and Islamic extremism - and for Good Night, and Good Luck a reminder of the threat to civil liberties through a story about the anti-communist hysteria in the US of the 1950s.

Clooney said Syriana did not single out US President George W. Bush's administration for attack, though it "certainly goes at this administration" as well as at 60 years of failed Middle East policy.

"If it's an attack, it's because you're asking questions," Clooney said.

Clooney has said the chilling effect of the September 11, 2001 attacks on US politics had inspired SyrianaA and its unflinching look at the ways extremism and political instability are fostered by the interests of big oil.

Fonte:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18268256-38200,00.html