Morgan Spurlock looks for Osama

[TriWooOx]

Best known for taking on McDonald's with his documentary Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock is returning to cinema screens once more.

His second feature tackles the war on terrorism by asking: "Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?"

His quest sees him heading off to find the world's most wanted man, with no military experience or expertise.

In short, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do. But why?

"This is a question that everyone where I live in New York City continues to ask," says the man who not only stars in the documentary but produces, writes and directs it too.

"It was 2005 when we got the idea for the movie. Bush had just been elected for a second term; Osama had just put out another tape.

"Suddenly he was on every TV station, every radio station, and people were saying where is he? Why haven't we found him? Why haven't we brought him to justice? Where is the world is Osama bin Laden?

"And I said, 'That's a great question.' And that was kind of the jumping-off point for the movie."

Before Spurlock could begin his adventure, however, he needed intensive military training, which saw him being kidnapped. During one such exercise, he got pepper spray in eyes.

"You just learn what things are in your control and what things are out of your control," he says of the training.

"And the biggest thing that is in your control in a dangerous situation is you maintaining your sense of self, of where you are and your awareness of what's going on, if X happens, what should Y be? Where should I go? How do I react?"

He says having an understanding of these is a good thing so if "you're in the middle of a field when things start firing around you, you're not going woo hoo woo hoo woo hoo - just kind of running around in circles".

Middle East travels

Spurlock's journey begins in Egypt, where he begins by trying to find out who Bin Laden is and what drives him.

Throughout the course of the film he also travels to Israel, Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

While there, he interviews people on the streets, trying to build up a bigger picture of the world's most wanted man.

And now that he has met and spoken to people in the various countries, he is the first to admit his perceptions have changed.

He said: "I expected to be met with a lot more hostility, a lot more aggression when we went to these countries and that people were going to be incredibly confrontational and standoffish with us. That simply wasn't the case.

"People really jumped at the chance to open up their homes, to sit down with us, share their feelings, share their opinions. For me [those people are] the most beautiful part of the movie."

'Heroes'

As part of the filming, Spurlock was embedded with British and US troops in Afghanistan. He says he has nothing but admiration for what they are doing.

"I think these guys are heroes for what they do. You can't downplay that.

"You get a sense that for every day, there's a situation where things could go horribly wrong for these guys - things could go in a very different direction for them."

The film is set against the backdrop of his wife's pregnancy and the eventual birth of his son, Laken James.

Indeed he says the reason he took on such a dangerous exercise in the first place was because he wanted to make the world a safer place for him.

So what did he learn along the way?

He said: "It's not just about one man; it's not just about who he is and who he represents. It's the things that push people to follow him that we should be focusing our time on.

"The fact is that all the people around the world don't just hate the West.

"We get this very monolithic image of anti-Western sentiment in the media and I think you start to see that is an incredibly small part of the 1.2 billion Muslims that are out there."

And now that he has finished the film, does he still feel that it is still an unsafe world?

"I'm optimistic that things will always be better and can always be better.

"There's hope in seeing that people just want their kids to go to school and Wwant them to get a good education and be healthy. Fathers who just want to have a good job and put food on the table and a roof over their families' heads.

"You know, Jihad isn't the answer for them. It's work. It's money. It's prosperity. It's stuff we all want."

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden is out in UK cinemas on 9 May.

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[Hei Hu Quan]

It's more like Morgan Spurlock looks for ratings and relevancy. The whole affair is a bloody joke, the conscious world knows that that fuck is and has been dead for quite sometime Benazir Bhutto even confirmed this in an interview shortly before her assassination. Spurlock is a cunning little bastard and his Zionist producers are all to willing to keep this lie afloat for as long as possible. If Bin Laden were still alive, and Morgan Spurlock ever truly found his real safehouse, he'd meet a sudden accident during filming as sure as the sun would rise in the morrow. This film is nothing more than cheap theatrics to entice the unquestioning sleeple.