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I don't think this is happening like this in the real world

posted 13 years ago by nick-1036
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To a large degree I think people in Hollywood making these type of films are after entertainment value only but it also plays off the paranoia of viewers who think this kind of thing is going on all the time in our country. But the truth may be that billionaire power brokers involved in the military industrial complex need only to play golf with the right people, and spread the cash to their friends to get what they want. They don't need to break the law, the law is their friend, they don't need to hire and promote an undercover mistress and they certainly don't need to hire and control military assassins who murder random and or well known people. This film is a paranoid fantasy for naive movie goers, it doesn't happen like this in real life, it's all buttoned up and all legal.

[–] UberNoodle 13 years ago

Yeah, movies should never be about extraordinary things that don't usually happen in our daily lives.

Besides, if you really think that the events in this story aren't plausible, then you've not paid much attention to history. The story of State of Play is nothing new and it has NOTHING To do with Hollywood. Political thrillers in literature have been playing with these stories for decades.

However, what makes you so sure that the USA, a nation which drone bombs American citizens without trial, signs indefinite detention of US citizens into law, already indefinitely detains without trail foreign nationals in top secret overseas installations, allows corporate money to usurp the law the will of the people and democratic rule, has turned warfare into profit driven business, and so on, is immune to these kinds of intrigues?

In the end, the lady in the film WASN'T killed by the private military company but by a rogue employee acting out of somewhat insane loyalty. The company was certainly being underhanded and manipulative, and probably engaged in activities which SHOULD be illegal, but it didn't actually kill that lady, despite paying her to spy on the senator. And honestly, after the the Acorn and NPR hidden camera debacles initiated by the Republican party intimates, you doubt that a bit of espionage is beneath governmental or corporate morals? There are people who's job is blatantly and openly to spy on rival corporations.

[–] rowan888 13 years ago

Reiterating what the above poster mentioned:

1. Corporate Spies are very real - so a person like Sonya Baker spying for another organisation is plausible

2. No assassin was ever hired by PointCorp. Senator's friend just went nuts.

[–] leobourne 11 years ago

This thread is utter nonsense. Of course it happens in the real world. Corporate conspiracy and spying is as big as spying on war fronts. Spying has various degrees, and this had the military involved and Congressmen for godsake!!! Naive thread.

[–] leobourne 11 years ago

What did you think it was? Just the same old spy game lying in covers on borders in 1947? If there's a corporate conspiracy involving treason and 40 billion dollars, of course there will be double agents. And girls like Sonia have the best cover. After all they were investigating outsourcing in Iraq and Afghanistan. They could have even sold weapons to the opposite side, just like how the CIA played a role in 9/11. One Congressman in it for the money and one trying to uncover, and obviously there will be plants. Especially with the Govt of USA dishing out the money for these bids. ROFL.