These texts come from a comment below that I know what the problem movie Syrena said. Syrena is a movie I like very much, and it has some influence on me.
The fictional kingdom in the movie has a good relationship with the United States, and there are American troops in the country. The royal family is very wealthy. The profits of the oil industry attract foreign workers from Pakistan and other countries. The country is an autocratic government without parliamentary restrictions. The royal family has great influence in political and economic aspects. Economically, it can be seen that the royal family has some unexploited oil fields. Ownership, and can choose foreign companies to cooperate in order to exploit these resources according to their own wishes. It can be seen that although this country is relatively rich, its industry is underdeveloped and there is no complete industrial system.
These characteristics basically determine that the prototype of this country is a country similar to Saudi Arabia. There are basically three camps of these countries in the Gulf. One is an ally of the United States such as Saudi Arabia, and the religious belief is Sunni Islam (of course non-Arab countries and Israel), and the other is an American opponent such as Iran. Belief is Shia Islam, and there is another kind of Shia and Sunni powers like Lebanon and Yemen. For example, Hezbollah in Lebanon has appeared in movies and Yemen has always appeared in the news recently. The Houthis are Shiite forces, and these forces generally have Iranian support. The two major camps of Iran and Saudi Arabia have been trying to expand their influence in the Middle East, secretly interfering in local elections and giving a certain degree of support to the rebels. Iran is somewhat different from the Gulf countries in the west because it is often sanctioned by the United States and other reasons. The domestic economy is not as good as other countries. At the same time, Iran does not have the support of the United States like Saudi Arabia, so it is used in military industry and people’s livelihood. In terms of industry, it needs more of its own strength to develop. Over time, Iran has formed a complete industrial system, which can be described as the most industrialized country in the Middle East.
The prince in the movie took the phd in the UK. After seeing the Western system, he believed that his country’s system and women’s rights were backward. He and the consultant played by Matt Damon said that he wanted to establish a parliament. , To establish an oil exchange to give women the right to vote.
But the most dangerous thing is-he wants to get rid of the control of the United States over his country.
He initially sold the exploitation rights of a domestic oil field to China because China offered higher prices. This behavior caused the US Connex company to lose its bid. He also hired an energy analyst Matt Damon as his economic adviser. According to the map drawn by Matt Damon on the desert, the location of this fictitious country should be in southern Iran. Matt Damon gave him the idea that in order to save transportation costs for oil to the West, he should go through Iran instead of going around Africa. The prince also tried to listen to this suggestion, but once this willingness is implemented, it is likely to be achieved through closer relations between his country and Iran, which is certainly not acceptable to the United States. Matt Damon, who studies economics, probably doesn't quite understand these geopolitical details. This undoubtedly greatly reduced the goodwill of the United States towards this prince.
Pay attention to the point of the whole film! You must know that the United States is an ally of this country and has 10,000 troops stationed in this country. The prince is politically trying to promote democracy, parliament, women’s rights, voting, and other universal values promoted by the United States in his dictatorship. At the same time, he also hopes to share the domestic business pie with China from the perspective of economic interests. Iran cooperation. So if the United States in the plot insists on promoting universal values and considers its advanced political system, it should support the prince. If the United States in the plot insists on safeguarding its geographic interests in the Middle East, it should oppose the prince. So what did the United States do?
The United States first sent George Clooney to assassinate the prince. After Iran failed, the prince was killed by a drone.
As for China in the plot, it just wants to make some money in the Middle East, and has no intention to directly conflict with the United States here because of a little overseas economic interests. Moreover, China also has many business partners in the Middle East, so it is naturally impossible for China to come forward and give big money in politics. How much help the prince. As for the whole Iranian film, I don’t know if the prince has made any real progress in diplomacy and Iran.
There is also a line that attorney Bennett Holiday cooperated with the US Department of Justice to investigate whether Killen Company was involved in violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in obtaining the right to exploit an oil field in Kazakhstan. Because Connex failed to compete with China, it tried to acquire Killen in order to make up for the loss. But Killen may not be a clean company because of suspicion of violating the law, and their merger could not be approved by the Federal Court. Later, the lawyer Bennett and the Ministry of Justice investigated more and more and found that there were too many big people involved in it, and it was difficult to continue. So Connex and Killen handed over two scapegoats casually. The matter was no longer investigated, and the merger passed smoothly. As the lawyer Bennett said in the second half of the movie, this merger is beneficial to American consumers, so the Department of Justice, the Federal Court, and everyone hope that their merger will pass.
I think what this movie wants to express is that the right-wing forces in the United States may not care about whether democratic universal values can really be promoted. They only care about the national interests of the United States. And when corruption is in the interest of the country, the Ministry of Justice may just behave.
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Finally, the subject asked what conclusions the movie had. In fact, the narrative of this film has always been from a calm bystander perspective. For example, the two lines of lawyer Bennett and the prince bring us very different things, so I think this conclusion is open.
If you are a resident who is struggling to survive in a country sanctioned by the United States or a tragic child whose parents and your house were killed by a US military incendiary bomb, this movie may hope you don’t forget the sadness at this moment. And anger, and always don’t forget to associate these emotions with the evil right-wing government of the United States;
If you are a well-mixed American, this movie may hope you will cherish your current life, because it is based on countless bones and some, uh, tears of blood and tears of the people of the "Third World Countries" Up;
Suppose you are studying at a university in a certain country, and you’re free to watch some interesting liberal speeches over the wall, thinking you have discovered some truth, and trying to vent the liberalism that is in your heart at this time in the society so as to realize what you think When there is a lofty ideal, this movie may want to tell you that those universal values of freedom and democracy are actually nonsense. They are all the evil American imperialism trying to peacefully evolve you. They just want to destroy the self-sufficiency that you have worked so hard to build. The military-civilian industrial system disrupts your society, and then divides up your resources, just as it did with the Soviet Union. In addition, there are more than 30 possible successes in more than 100 democratic countries in the world, and only a dozen economically successful countries? It is not easy for every country in this world, and unfortunate families have their own misfortunes. So don't scold a certain country and Iran all day, and build socialism seriously.
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Actually, I don’t know much about geopolitics in the Middle East. If there are any problems, please correct me!
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