Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
by Morgan Spurlock
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Actor: Alexandra Jamieson, Morgan SpurlockDirector: Morgan Spurlock
Brand: Wellspring Media INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 81438
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Product features:
- Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock sets out on his own to find the world s most elusive fugitive, venturing hilariously into the unfamiliar Middle East. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: PG-13 Age: 796019814386 UPC: 796019814386 Manufacturer No: 81438
DVD Reviews of Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
DVD Review: very good but not quite what he's capable of producing
Summary: 4 Stars
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? is another film by the highly creative and rather brave Morgan Spurlock. Although the film has its flaws, it makes some extremely good points about human nature and how people who seem to be so different from us are actually much more similar to us than we may have thought. The cinematography works very well throughout the film. These cameramen did an excellent job; they shot over 800 hours of footage in order to make this film! (Now that's an editing job!) Morgan doesn't really need to act much in this movie; he's on a quasi-serious mission to find Osama Bin Laden. I think he knew from the start that he was making a film about people we may fear when we don't need to fear them; I doubt that he was actually expecting Bin Laden to come jumping out of a cave somewhere and say, "OK, Morgan, here I am! I surrender!"
We first see Morgan preparing for his trip. He gets more injections than I could count; and he takes some training exercises to be able to protect himself against grenade bombs, would-be assassins and more. He also has to leave his pregnant wife behind him but he promises her that he'll be back in time for their baby to be born.
Once Morgan gets where he's going, he asks people questions. In fact, he asks a lot of questions. We get fascinating interviews with people on the street and there are more interviews with some other people who were kind enough to let Morgan Spurlock into their homes. Morgan frequently, if not always, asks them their opinion of America, Israel, Osama Bin Laden and more. We often see people saying that they have nothing against the American people; but wow, how they hate the American government. He does encounter some trouble from a few people who don't want to be interviewed; but I don't think he was too surprised by this.
Along the way Morgan Spurlock uses humor in an apparent attempt to make the subject matter a bit easier for people to swallow. In my opinion, this didn't always work. For example, Spurlock asks an Afghani man about a Tora Bora amusement park plan, Spurlock suggests that they call it "the bomb." Hey, the country's been at war for 30 years--that's not necessarily going to be perceived as a funny joke, Morgan! The guy being interviewed didn't laugh; and even though some of us might laugh I wouldn't have taken that chance with someone in a tough foreign country where trouble is easy to find, especially when they had been nice enough to sit down with me for an interview. In addition, Spurlock mocks both his own efforts as well as the international efforts to find Bin Laden for real; he approaches the entrance to a cave and yells "Osama., are you in there?" Yeah, it IS funny; but it's also naļve and silly, not to mention potentially dangerous--who knows who might really have been in that cave at the time? Morgan also skips over Iran and Iraq; he apparently knew enough to set some limits on his quest to find Bin Laden.
Overall, the film is about a B+. Morgan Spurlock's true message in this film is that we should fear other cultures less and recognize them as being much more like us than they are different from us. He could have done a better job of proving this when he went to one or two of the countries he visited; but he gets his point across nonetheless. I recommend this film for people studying this situation and sociologists will have a field day watching this film.
Description of Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
There's no doubt Morgan Spurlock is a brave man. In Super Size Me, the director subsisted on junk food for 30 days and suffered the consequences. In 2006, after finding out his wife, vegan chef Alexandra Jamieson (who features in his previous effort), is pregnant, Spurlock takes action--John McCain style--to secure a more peaceful planet for his unborn child. In Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, he gets his shots, works out, and takes a self-defense class in preparation for a jaunt through Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to track down the Al-Qaeda fugitive (his itinerary neglects Iran and Iraq). With a child on the way, the $25 million reward holds some attraction, but video-game graphics, terrorist trading cards, and action-movie music underline the quixotic nature of Spurlock's quest. Similarly, the movie itself is a mixed success. The humor that fueled his first film can fall flat when the stakes are higher. Pop-culture references and serious conversations with concerned citizens make for odd bedfellows. It isn?t that Spurlock disrespects his subjects, but that he tries harder to entertain than to elucidate, and his interviews merely reinforce the notion that people everywhere share similar concerns. Unfortunately, fellow Oscar nominated filmmakers, like Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country) and James Longley (Iraq in Fragments), already beat him to the punch. Spurlock has also released a book with the same name to expand on themes explored in this somewhat superfluous documentary. --Kathleen C. FennessyBestsellers in DVD
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