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March 06, 2006
It's all Politics
Syriana was reviewed by both Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita on March 3rd. But did the reviewers see the same version? Poor Jacek Szczerba in GW seems to be under the impression that it is a documentary: he praises the US for allowing this pack of anti-US lies to be produced and distributed, even though it "stinks of poster paint". If McCarthy were alive, he jokes (ha ha), he would be raising the alarm about crypto-communists in the American film industry.
Rafal Swiatek for Rzeczpospolita, on the contrary, says the film "avoids demagogic tricks" and conveys its message in an understated way.
Is Rafal Swiatek blind to propaganda or has Gazeta Wyborcza's devotion to the US surpassed that of Tony Blair?
Posted by hgrodsk at March 6, 2006 03:41 PM
Comments
I don't think they were talking about Syriana, they wwre talking about the other Clooney film - the black and white one with lots of silences and cigerette smoke.
Poles have a particular take on the Cold War...and pinkos were just appeasers who were asking for it, in their opinion.
Posted by: beatroot at March 6, 2006 11:09 PM
No. It was Syriana alright. (It took me a while to find that its Polish name was the same as its English name.)
Posted by: Henry Grodsk at March 7, 2006 10:33 AM
Syriana is about oil politics and fundementalism. Good Night Good Luck is about McCarthy.
Posted by: beatroot at March 8, 2006 12:39 AM