I really like the stories that are woven together like that. I just love making the connections and watching them all come together. It hits so hard when they do. The idea of converging realities really fascinates me. Particularly when the storyteller uses such diverse cultures to weave the tale.
The movie is loosely based on a book by a guy named Baer (?spell?) who was a CIA agent who simply couldn't stomach it anymore. IIRC, he said that if you wanted someone to disappear you sent them to Syria. He didn't die, he wrote the book.
Middle East politics are as the icon indicates. It's complicated because religion is the state. It's complicated because the state is drawn along tribal loyalties and the tribes have been forever artificially divided. It's complicated because the press there a good tin-hatter story, and the masses believe things that we'd say "WTFBBQ???" to.
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Date: 2007-01-02 04:13 am (UTC)The movie is loosely based on a book by a guy named Baer (?spell?) who was a CIA agent who simply couldn't stomach it anymore. IIRC, he said that if you wanted someone to disappear you sent them to Syria. He didn't die, he wrote the book.
Middle East politics are as the icon indicates. It's complicated because religion is the state. It's complicated because the state is drawn along tribal loyalties and the tribes have been forever artificially divided. It's complicated because the press there a good tin-hatter story, and the masses believe things that we'd say "WTFBBQ???" to.
It's different.