Do Buy! a Dubai Documentary (Part 3)

An ethnographic film on the city, its disenfranchised workers, utopian architecture, and consumerist heaven of shopping malls.

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• dubai

[omairways]

I made this film and I am a Muslim, Indian/British dude. Do you think my film is making fun of anyone? It is more about the absurdity/attraction of this place.

[harhainen]

pretty boring documentary.. :O

[omairways]

hmm. needs Michael Moore

[avocadogreen]

I loved the ending lol, it's kind of funny because I've seen this before, but failed to see this one last bit for some reason :/ . Inspiring documentaries, I was very moved by your videos... living in dubai all my life, I can see a lot of 'truths' that you have portrayed in all of them. You are Really talented, flawless videos.. you've got an Artist's eye[and rarely do I ever come across something like this 'unique' 'poetic realism'].

[omairways]

bigup to you! and respect... God bless

[araborigine]

Brilliant documentary. I agree with Haluk - the security guard was impressive. I'd grant him a PhD if I was Oxford. I gave the documentary 4 stars (although it actually deserved 5) because as a UAE national, I took slight offence to what was said about Arabs not working and only spending money. That is so not true!

Good job, Omair. Now I want to work with you on a documentary!

[omairways]

there is an overwhelming notion, (be it racist/offensive/or whatever) of the Indo/Pak workers is that the Arabs don't do work, because they are all rich and just have spare time and money. I am not saying it is true by putting it in the documentary, I am just letting a Pakistani taxi driver say what he thinks. It highlights things like Pakistani envy of the Arabs, strange myths people create about this mysterious natives who are a minority in Dubai.

[crazywaters]

Dubai is going the Manhatan of Middle East. Arabs are very ambitious people and they do have goals and dreams, but lost the essence because of their over-the-top approach. In other documentaries some Arabs hate the western people and their way of life, yet they try to do anything to live by it. I see Dubai as a cultural experiment with an expiration date. During the little time I spent there I saw that superficiality.

[umealvi]

Well Done Omair! its true that these Arabs are rich and proudly. But pakistani's and Indians and other labourers that came to build Dubai when it was just Desert should be privelged and rewarded.However in this big bad world this is not the case in today's society.

[Abercrombie10112]

All those christian kuffar Americans are jealous. That's why they are making fun of us.

[gimmelgimmel]

What a hellhole.

[fcpEDITOR1]

I have mixed feelings about the documentary. Perhaps it was intentional not to have proper narration to guide the viewer through it, but as an expat born and living in Dubai I do feel you neglected many different angles of the same reality in Dubai....and as a professional editor, I believe a good script and a different approach to editing could have made me realize this as a great documentary. Just a thought...just an opinion. God bless...

[usy444u]

Sick documentary lolz 5 stars

[NodrogTrax]

@xxandr But this is Dubai. Western televised culture tends to distort perceptive planes, as you have demonstrated. If everything is not right here at once you cannot fathom, you get frustrated, and you get offended by the lack of complete inclusion. You know one or two things outside of the documentary, to some minor degree at least, and the documentary is responsible to your individual experience, says prevailing Western notions. Interrelations are your responsibility alone. Think instead.

[NodrogTrax]

@omairways In documentaries you can take a small view or a large view. You can focus on epic or tragedy. In my opinion either can be done effectively and credibly. This is a pure and well paced documentary about human reality in a large system, from which we extrapolate their truth. It lends to curiosity for the audience to want to know why such dysfunction occurs, because it makes one want for context. Michael Moore is an infotainer, a weak peddler of a shallow middle ground.

[MattyTheMole]

@crazywaters Middle Eastern people are influenced by Western Culture which does not only include the United States.

[MattyTheMole]

@avocadogreen Lol The man at the end who say "If you have no money you can go fuck yourself", hahahaha. Sounds so much like America...

[xxandr]

Sorry to be negative but you need money EVERYWHERE, not just in dubai.