Syriana

Syriana is like a fascinating Social Studies class – if such a thing ever existed – and it works exactly like that. Endlessly absorbing, to an extent entertaining, and still with a touch of the scholarly about it.

It is written and directed by Stephen Gaghan who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Traffic, so you should correctly presume a certain level of plot complexity and a myriad bunch of characters. The narrative, given its subject matter, is suitably fractured and complex, and is quite like researching something on Wikipedia. Read a main article, click through....