[...]The film closes with outtakes from personalities Spurlock encountered. Some simply gaze into the camera. One of the most anti-American Saudis slowly allows a smile to cross his face. He’s tentative at first, like it hurts him. He looks pained and then it’s like he’s aware of how silly he looks and he gives us a real smile. In that smile, we can see our common lot. Like when you’ve had an argument with someone, and you just want it to end and there’s a moment when you see you’re wrong or you don’t even care who’s right anymore and a smile crosses your face. His smile was like that.
Spurlock is just one man (with a hard working band of producers) who took on trekking to these difficult places in the world, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, and Morocco. He stops short of Pakistan. Recalling Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl’s fate there (Pearl, a hard news reporter was on the trail of al Qaeda; his wife was also pregnant at the time) it was probably not an un-wise move, given that Spurlock was a novice in these matters. The film shows how regular people can ferret out simple truths, when our leaders fail to make the effort. [...]”
Don’t panic, this was the end of a tragicomic review(?) in HuffPost by one Logan Nakyanz Pollard (turns out that she’s a Air America producer, so…).
I won’t see this crap – a friend of me (liberal) did a stop to see it and walked out rapidly, per his report in the theater were only a gang of yakking kinds and a few somber, MoveOn.Org-like types. The movie is trying to be a Borat showing his soft, human side, complemented by the known liberal Bush obsessions. A humorless & contrived stinker. Who’s financing this type of crap? Cuban? Soros strikes again? Anyway, it took Spurlock 6 years to move from Supersize This to this thing – hope it’ll take much more ’till he’ll have another project on the screen.
