{"id":353,"date":"2006-06-26T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=353"},"modified":"2006-06-26T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T19:27:15","slug":"stephen-gaghan-syriana-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Gaghan &#8211; Syriana (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/wp-content\/syriana_poster.jpg\" alt=\"syriana_poster.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/> The puzzle, it seems to me, is not how to find out about the multiple ways the current setup of commerce and power is defective, producing forces that can not help but be evil. Rather, it&#8217;s how to turn this realization into smething that has practical consequences, and not being forced into quiet resignation, because the mechanisms are too far removed from our daily life for them to be able to lie within our sphere of influence. The great thing, then, about movies like this one, is that in all it&#8217;s complexity and intricateness &#8211; and I didn&#8217;t find it remotely as hard to follow the plot as all the reviewers were whining, by the way. Sure, you miss some details, but the main pieces are in plain view &#8211; it creates the feeling that everything is connected, providing the unlikely hope that stems from the fact that even what we lowly watchers of movies do in our lives will make a difference, shifting the distribution of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The puzzle, it seems to me, is not how to find out about the multiple ways the current setup of commerce and power is defective, producing forces that can not help but be evil. Rather, it&#8217;s how to turn this realization into smething that has practical consequences, and not being forced into quiet resignation, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,16,21,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-englisch","category-history","category-must-see","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}