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 | Borat /Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan/ |
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| Year: 2006 |
| Director: Larry Charles |
| Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Pamela Anderson, Bob Barr, Bobby Rowe |
| Genres: Comedy |
| Runtime: 84 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Subtitles: OpenSubtitles.org |
| Soundtrack: available |
| Wallpapers: available |
Borat, a journalist in the nation of Kazahkstan, is sent to America by his government to film a documentary about US culture in an attempt to improve the standard of living in his own country. He and his producer, Azamat, arrive in New York City, where Borat, falling prey to culture clash, doesn't exactly make a great first impression (i.e., letting chickens loose on a subway, kissing random men on the street, etc.) While watching TV in his hotel room, he comes across a "Baywatch" rerun and falls in love with Pamela Anderson. He decides to leave New York to travel to Los Angeles to find her, but neglects to tell his producer the real reason he wants to travel to California. On the way, Borat meets many people, but ends up either humiliating or enfuriating all of them. For example, when he receives a driving lesson, he attempts to drink while driving, shouts obscenities at the other drivers, and asks his instructor to be his boyfriend. He attends a dinner party with some members of high society and successfully dismisses himself from the table to use the restroom politely, but brings a bag of... the result of the bathroom visit... back to the table with him. Minutes later, a prostitute he invited to the dinner shows up, causing the hosts of the party to throw him out. He stops at a rodeo to sing our National Anthem, but draws boos from the crowd when he replaces the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner with lyrics about his own native land and tells the crowd that he hopes for George W. Bush to "drink the blood of every man, woman, and child" who opposes us in the war on terror. One night, Borat finds Azamat, um, really enjoying a photo of his (Borat's) beloved Pam Anderson. They fight (in quite a crude way,) and in the end, Borat is left all alone in a strange place with no money and no passport. He ends up falling asleep on a sidewalk, but wakes up to realize that he is in front of a church. He goes inside, becomes saved, and journies on to California to find his beloved Pam Anderson.Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the "greatest country in the world." With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment. |
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| Date: 2006-12-24 21:50:24 |
User: Devil |
I'm dying to see this, but I have my reservations as well. What made Borat such a comedic treat on Da Ali G Show was his incredible ability to put real people into tear-inducingly uncomfortable situations. Taking this character out of his original context and placing him into a purely fictional environment runs a serious risk of killing the humour altogether.
I am a big fan of Sacha Baron Cohen however. I have faith in his ability to write and portray this character well enough to keep me entertained. But for all his skill I just don't think it will be the same, and I can't escape this foreboding feeling that I'll walk away from this film at least somewhat disappointed. |
| Date: 2007-10-04 12:18:41 |
User: Christy Ryman |
For those who may not have known (or even guess, given the name) Cohen is of Jewish origins (although educated in a Christian school), like Seinfield and other Jewish comics he is the first to criticise his culture/heritage and make us laugh. Very often the jokes against the Jews are in fact aimed at the reaction of the protagonists of the scenes, best example is the "Throw a Jew down the well" scene when he sings a country like song and that the audience repeat the lyrics, or again in the minivan with the graduated students. To understand some jokes you have to either know history or culture, the Jewish Satyre puppet laying an egg being crushed before hatching is a direct reference to the behaviour of some eastern countries citizen against the Jews in the Nazi/Stallinians years of the mid 20th century. I think Cohen had a lot of courage in some of his scenes and I would love to see a behind the scene extra to see how much of it genuine, the Khazak Anthem song, the well mannered people dinner party, the Jesus church, the abduction of Pamela Anderson... because if they are, then that Americans are not so "trigger happy blood minded killers".
Why I gave only a 6 is that although it's a good laugh it doesn't teach us much more about America that we already know. Yes there are loads of Racists (WASP, Rednecks), yes they are a Theocrary instead of a Democracy, yes they are usually unaware of what happens outside their borders but we already know that, don't we? I have lived in America and I can tell you there are a big bunch of very decent and friendly people over there, it' true that the IQ level seems to drop as they gather in larger and larger groups but I think it would have been nice to include some gags with genuinely friendly Americans.
This movie is sure to make some fuss, and on my shelves it goes next to Fast Food Nation, Farenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine and Supersize Me and the likes |
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