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"Crash course in manhood"

posted 9 years ago by wirenutz
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His visit to the middle east as a "crash course in manhood", as he called it, would be far better called "an hour and a half in the life of a self obsessed mummy's boy"
He could have started by going to a bar, getting drunk and losing his virginity to a whore, or moving out of his Mum and Grannies house and living on his own for a while etc. Things that normal young men do on the way to "becoming a man".
I seriously believed that this was some sort of spoof documentary about some narcissistic man-child who decided to document what was going on in the Middle East at that particular time. I am pretty sure that the locals must have believed he was retarded and did not bother him too much.
He states he has never had a job, yet somehow he raised the money for his trip.
Within the first 5 minutes of this, you will be laughing at him, not with him because he does not make any attempt at being humourous.
"I taught myself how to do wheelies and found myself doing them all the time. Front wheel of the ground for 0 - 1 second = a wheelie is what he calls a wheelie.
You will feel bad about yourself for laughing at him.

[–] triplegrim 9 years ago

He points out that he might come across narsissistic. I agree the film is about him, and his personal journey, shallow as it may be, but he still seems to have some small reflection about his role in the whole.

[–] jeddahgal 9 years ago

The whole having auditory hallucinations can be the result of solitary confinement excuse for his breakdown in prison was such a pathetic rationalization. You were hearing voices, you Nelly, because you weren't taking your meds.

What's sad is that there is some poor equally delusional kid somewhere in an American suburb who will watch this garbage and decide he should go and fight with the fedayeen or the mujahideen or whatever because this ridiculous poseur did it.

[–] tyboulder 8 years ago

Auditory hallucinations induced by solitary confinement are not only common, they are no where near the "craziest" things that happen to you in those conditions.

You misjudge this guy almost entirely. While he clearly has his issues, like the rest of us, he's brave enough to answer all the difficult questions posed to him with honesty-- often admitting to sides of himself that he knows won't paint him in a good light. To judge him for the flaws that he was brave enough to expose-- for the sake of an honest and more complete story-- is to miss the larger point (while coming off, yourself, as a bit self-righteous).