Borat the Movie* (2006)
I think the last movie that I saw where the audience laughed so much that I couldn’t make out the dialogue was There’s Something About Mary. Borat is ingeniously “funny” and it really takes a lot of guts to be able to go through the making of it all and not land in jail immediately! According to IMDb.com, Sacha Cohen was arrested many times during the filming!
Borat is a news correspondent from the faraway land of Kazakhstan formed after USSR broke up into pieces. The village where Borat came from, … I can’t find a good word for it, so I’d just say “culturally different” from America or any other culture for the matter. In order to improve the land of Kazakhstan, Borat is being sent on a mission to create a documentary of how things are done in the US of A! Throughout the film, Borat interviews and experiences many things American, and give his take on the matter. It could be a social commentary, or just really funny film making! Since I’m not a sociology major, I’d just go with the latter.
It is funny for the most part! But to be honest, it didn’t strike a resonance with my funny bone as well as it did for others in the audience… I dunno why ~ it’s certainly funny, but I more or less shook my head and chuckled at the idiocy presented before me. I think there were scenes, that if carried further, would’ve made me really laugh - but always cut short because people usually figure out something is wrong and they probably gonna regret continuing entreating with Borat’s antics. Oh well, I think it’s time well spent nonetheless!
*Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
November 19th, 2006 at 12:52 am
I watched the movie just yesterday. I laughed quite a lot. The movie is just so wrong and unpolite I had to love it. But I’ll have to admit that by the end I was so desithesized that his anthics didn’t get to me anymore.