This movie is both funny and enlightening. (http://www.whereisobl.com) I saw this last week at the art theater. He travels to a bunch of countries in the middle east and talked to a lot of regular people and some not-so-regular people. He even had a couple of exciting, dangerous moments. If you liked Supersize Me or 30 days you will probably like this movie too.

From Roger Ebert's review:

Although the film uses trading cards to identify some of the more prominent players (not so far removed from the Most Wanted playing cards actually issued to U.S. military personnel in Iraq), Spurlock spends most of his time interviewing anonymous civilians in the manner of John Candy (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=search1&SearchType=1&q=John%20Candy&Class=%25&FromDate=19150101&ToDate=20081231)'s Johnny LaRue on "Street Beef." He learns that people all over the world say they detest the arrogance of American imperialist foreign policy, but most of them think the American people themselves are OK, anyway. Again and again they say they do not hate American freedoms, they resent outside interference in their own affairs. If any of this comes as news, you may also be surprised to learn that Al Gore was never the president of the United States.


Other things Spurlock learns from people he talks to:

••The threat of terrorism created the climate of fear that is being exploited by al-Qaida and the Bush administration. (That's almost a direct quote from somebody who is not famous.)
••Some terrorists are tempted by money, others are tempted by promises of paradise. (Another quote from a Moroccan fellow.)
••"Everybody knows" that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will eventually end with two independent, interacting states. The question is how long it will take and how many more will die in the meantime.
••The perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks intended to draw the U.S. into the Middle East, to create the perception of a war against Islam and recruit young people for a militant jihad. It worked beyond their wildest hopes. When the U.S. invaded Iraq, it opened up the country to terrorist factions from all over the region.
••"In a counter-insurgency, killing the enemy doesn't work," notes a U.S. military officer in Afghanistan.
••Spurlock's wife is having contractions. (She tells him that herself over the phone.)

I was going to go see that but the reviews were not very favorable. I'll probably wait til it's out on DVD.