Nothing tells you more about Hollywood than what it chooses to honor.
Nothing tells you more about a columnist than what he chooses to oversimplify. Consider a few rules: 1. Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."
2. Keep your sense of humor.
3. If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
4. For every human problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.
5. Simply because a problem is shown to exist doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.
Or these: 6. Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
7. Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning.
8. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
Or these: 9. Get mad, then get over it.
10. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
It's worth noting what "political message" films he chose to ignore, perhaps because they didn't necessarily confirm his thesis: "Good Night, and Good Luck.", "The Constant Gardener", and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room." About "Syriana", Decius wrote: I didn't really think that any of the people in the movie were heroes. I thought that was the point.
This is where Krauthammer exposes his assumptions about the director's approach to filmmaking. In his view, the message of a film is communicated by what it says. Of course, sometimes a film's power derives from what is left unsaid, or by its "negative space." Krauthammer continues: On the very night the Oscars will be honoring "Syriana," American soldiers will be fighting, some perhaps dying, in defense of precisely the kind of tolerant, modernizing Muslim leader that "Syriana" shows America slaughtering.
Maybe Krauthammer really understands the "no heroes" thesis, because with this statement he has demonstrated it quite effectively. Oscars for Osama | 
