Syriana

Go! Several plot lines bob and weave through this well-crafted, suspenseful film. Despite using some near-paranoid cliches about big business and government, the movie shows all people as machines* subject to the whims of external events despite each person's illusion of control and self-determination.

*I found this from Ouspensky's book quoting Gurdjieff: "...all his life he [any person] has been subject to some extraneous will and has never had any decisions of his own. But a man is not concious of this. He considers that he has the right of free choice. It is hard for him to renounce the illusion that he directs and organizes his life himself."