Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
Documentary provocateur Morgan Spurlock travels to many different Middle Eastern countries including, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan in search of the notorious terrorist mastermind, Osama Bin Laden. Each segment is another fascinating look at the people and culture of this troubled region.
Inside these exotic destinations, Spurlock works hard to gauge the peoples' real feelings towards the United States by interviewing both radicals and moderates. The results are surprising.
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? is not just another documentary about how everything is a mess in the Middle East, and how its all America's fault; this is an inside look at how Islamic Fundamentalism breeds radicalism and how the American Government can appear just as extreme inside their own moral myopia.
What in the World was Morgan Spurlock thinking?
What's the story inside this documentary?
Clearly Morgan Spurlock comes from the Michael Moore school of infotainment, and he appears equally sharp witted and insightful in this documentary film. If you thought targeting McDonalds for unhealthy eating standards in his 2004 Super Size Me was easy, wait till you see Spurlock going after Osama Bin Laden and global terrorism!Spurlock's cinematic experiment produces some fascinating insights into the way things really are in the Mid East, as he measures the rust on America's tarnished reputation. While wandering the streets of Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Spurlock interviews the common man, jokingly looking for clues to Bin Laden's whereabouts - and the replies are very interesting!
But the absolute finest sequence of the film features the production crew slowly being surrounded and harassed on the streets of Tel Aviv, to a point where the police respond and rather violently assist Spurlock's immediate departure. This is the most spontaneous moment in the picture, and the most truly representative of the tense religious geopolitics in the region.
The crux of Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? is the hunt for Osama Bin Laden himself and that is epitomized in a clever video game, a deck of vintage baseball trading cards, and my favorite device, an animated Osama dancing to 'Can't Touch This' by MC Hammer.
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- When he is actually offered the chance to head into the mountainous region between Pakistan and Afghanistan where bin Laden is supposed to be hiding, ...
