Ok, I’m going to drop down into the media morass surrounding the upcoming film surprise from the Toronto Film Festival “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”. This film is definitely going on my ‘guilty pleasures’ list. My first exposure to Sascha Baron Cohen’s character was a photo on Yahoo’s most emailed photos section. The picture of this hairy foreigner in a lime green ‘dong thong’ was too outrageous to miss. Then I saw the preview at the movies and it all clicked.
Now I was on a mission.
I had never seen Cohen’s HBO series ‘Da Ali G Show’, where the character was fully developed. A quick sumary if you don’t know, Borat is supposed to be an official Kazakhstan reporter with a TV show dedicated to finding out more about the ‘US and A”. Ripe with commentary about our society, the film and the series under his bumbling guise as Borat, gets everyday Americans to unwittingly expose their true feelings, instead of the usual PC statements we all make. Jewish himself, Cohen’s character is heavily anti-semitic and you don’t have to go to far to find people sympathetic to his opinion.
I like the fact that he is using humor with his antics, mangling of the English language and physical comedy to let us take a look at ourselves, laugh, and (hopefully) think about our beliefs and prejudices. He does skewer Middle White America pretty well with what I’ve seen so far. I’m sure with a successful movie, future TV shows or films will go after everyone, just like Carlos Mencia. Now there’s a good buddy flick!
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