Went to see Syriana (2005). It provided some nice images to the stories we already knew. That was both interesting and a bit disheartening. As movie entertainment, it fails, since there are too many threads, no satisfactory resolution, etc. I still recommend it for educational value. ;) TelePolis also wrote about it. ¹
I loved this passage, part of which I had already heard in the trailer:
Corruption? Corruption ain’t nothing more than government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulation. That’s Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. 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.
You really have to see Tim Blake Nelson ² deliver this line with all the indignation and conviction: Corruption is why we *wiiin!!*
We also watched Lisbon Story (1994) and got reminded of a.) the weirdness of Wim Wenders movies (that explains the weirdness of Jim Jarmusch movies, since Jarmusch started out as a production assistant of Wenders’), and b.) of the beauty of music by *Madredeus*.
We played the Madredeus albums Ainda, Movimento, and Existir. (Is there a Madredeus site that *does not* use Flash!?)
Images:Teresa+Salgueiro.
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