The Pirates of Somalia Page #2

Synopsis: In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Bryan Buckley
Production: Crystal Sky Entertainment
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
2017
116 min
347 Views


are popular and stuff.

- Okay, bro, you lost me.

- Journalistic integrity,

it's gonna be worth

something on the resume

when I apply to Harvard's

journalism school.

- [laughs] Right, right.

- Hey, I got an idea for a story

I'm gonna submit.

It came to me when I was

listening to CBC Radio today.

- What's--what's the angle?

- The end of the comedic

dictator.

Kim Jong is on his death bed,

and once he goes,

where's the dictator

comedy gonna come from?

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

He's funny and very alive.

- He's not funny.

- He's a little funny.

- He's a little funny, but no

one can pronounce his name.

- Your story is flawed, bro.

- You guys want to hear

something f***ed up?

Tracy's getting engaged.

- Where did you hear that sh*t?

- Mm, Kate.

She said she saw

it posted on Facebook.

She's gonna marry her

Lit professor.

- No way. Tracy is repulsed

by older men.

- You were older.

- Two years is not older, man!

- It's a little bit older.

- F*** you, Crowe.

- Hey, are you sure you don't

want to hit Parrots with us?

- No, dude, I got to--

- Do some sh*t nobody

gives a f*** about?

- Exactly.

- All right, well,

that is your loss,

but if you change your mind,

please hit us up.

- You got it. Later, dudes.

- See you, buddy.

- See you.

- F***ing moron.

- What?

- Ahh! Ahh!

- Name's Bahadur, here

to see Dr. Fleshman

about my back.

- Have you ever been here

before?

- No.

- All right, you'll just need

to fill out these forms.

- Right.

- You okay?

- Yeah, I just hurt my back,

figured I'd get a jump

on being a senior citizen.

[grunts]

- So, you busting on grey hairs?

To make a move on Kaitlyn, eh?

- Excuse me?

- That's all right,

I understand.

I'd take down all of humanity

just to bang her.

- Seymour.

- Ooh. I was just talking.

I'm trying to keep it

a level playing field.

- Yeah, leave him alone.

- You know what I'm saying.

Sorry. What happened

to your back?

- Sh-shoveling.

- Shoveling?

- Yeah.

- I got, uh, shrapnel moving

around the vertebrae.

It's a b*tch.

- Well, sounds like I got the

better end of the deal in here.

- Oh, bullshit.

Shoveling? I hate shoveling.

Pointless waste of time, no?

Name's Seymour Tolbin.

- Ah.

- Oh, oh, sorry.

- Wait, Seymour Tolbin?

- Yeah.

- The--who writes for

"The Daily Mail?"

- Wrote.

I'm retired, sort of.

But that's right. That's me.

- Holy f***.

You are one of my favorite

journalists of all time.

- Come on. You Facebook people

have favorite journalists?

- You were one of the

first reporters who had the guts

to report the Battle of

Ong Thanh as a loss.

- That's--

so you're a journalist?

- No. Well, I mean, yeah,

I want to be,

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Jay Bahadur

Jay Bahadur (born 1984) is a Canadian journalist and author. He became known for his reporting on piracy in Somalia, writing for The New York Times, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Times of London. Bahadur has also worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS News and he has advised the U.S. State Department on piracy. His first book, The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (2011), is his account of living with the pirates for several months in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in the northeast of Somalia. Bahadur currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya. more…

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