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Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By roberrific
Created 05/03/2008 - 18:27

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Why Morgan Spurlock's documentary is kinda important.

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Documentary provocateur Morgan Spurlock travels to a myriad of 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 peoples and culture clash of the world's most dangerous countries.

Inside all of these exotic destinations, this documentary filmmaker works hard to gauge the region's real feelings towards the United States by interviewing both radicals and moderates. The results are surprising.

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? [1] 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.

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? [2] is the hunt for Osama Bin Laden himself and that’s epitomized in a clever video game, baseball trading cards and my favorite device, an animated Osama dancing to ‘Can’t Touch This’ by MC Hammer.

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At one point the production crew is surrounded and harassed on the streets of Tel Aviv by an angry Israeli mob - the situation escalates to pushing just before the police respond and rather violently assist Spurlock’s immediate departure.
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Source URL: http://www.orato.com/afghanistan/2008/05/03/where-world-osama-bin-laden

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[1] http://www.orato.com/movietrailerlive.com/ct_0005_Osama_A
[2] http://www.orato.com/movietrailerlive.com/ct_0005_Osama_A