Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
The picture of the 'Diktator' (real name: Sacha Baron Cohen) in the newspaper walking on the red carpet before the Academy Awards aroused my curiosity to have first hand experience on his previous movie 'Borat'. I remember many years ago reading about it in Newsweek singing praises on its effort. My verdict: I should not even waste my time blogging about it! Or maybe it would discourage others from wasting their precious times too, but then, any publicity is good publicity in Tinseltown!
I never really paid much attention to this Borat character before. I actually thought that it was a Kazakh production.
It starts with Borat, a TV reporter showing us his village in Kazakhstan in a very derogatory, sexist and vulgar manner. He stereotypes Kazakh man and also ridicule their leader by giving the same name to his neighbour and puts him in bad light. Their children are holding guns and smoking cigarettes.
He is sent on a cultural expedition to USA with Azamat, his producer.
After reaching New York, poking fun at many of the American way of living and making an ass of himself by his supposedly country-bumpkin behaviour of a Kazakh, he decides to look for his love of his life (after he heard that his fat wife succumbed to a bear attack back home), Pamela Anderson, after mesmerised by her appearance by watching 'Baywatch' on TV!
Azamat and Borat make a transcontinental cultural expedition across USA on an ice-cream truck. The jokes here are worse than the toilet jokes and it ridicules all strata of society - feminist, handicapped, Jews (even though Cohen is grandson of Holocaust victim). Watching a grossly overweight middle aged man and another with strategically pixeled in full monty is not my kind of comedy. It may excite a different group of audience altogether.
I am surprised that Cohen is a Cambridge scholar and this film has many titles under its belt and was even nominated for Best Actor, Best Film and many more in 2006. Give a miss, give a miss.....
And don't even get me going on Cohen's next movie 'Bruno' (2009)!
The picture of the 'Diktator' (real name: Sacha Baron Cohen) in the newspaper walking on the red carpet before the Academy Awards aroused my curiosity to have first hand experience on his previous movie 'Borat'. I remember many years ago reading about it in Newsweek singing praises on its effort. My verdict: I should not even waste my time blogging about it! Or maybe it would discourage others from wasting their precious times too, but then, any publicity is good publicity in Tinseltown!I never really paid much attention to this Borat character before. I actually thought that it was a Kazakh production.
It starts with Borat, a TV reporter showing us his village in Kazakhstan in a very derogatory, sexist and vulgar manner. He stereotypes Kazakh man and also ridicule their leader by giving the same name to his neighbour and puts him in bad light. Their children are holding guns and smoking cigarettes.
He is sent on a cultural expedition to USA with Azamat, his producer.
After reaching New York, poking fun at many of the American way of living and making an ass of himself by his supposedly country-bumpkin behaviour of a Kazakh, he decides to look for his love of his life (after he heard that his fat wife succumbed to a bear attack back home), Pamela Anderson, after mesmerised by her appearance by watching 'Baywatch' on TV!
Azamat and Borat make a transcontinental cultural expedition across USA on an ice-cream truck. The jokes here are worse than the toilet jokes and it ridicules all strata of society - feminist, handicapped, Jews (even though Cohen is grandson of Holocaust victim). Watching a grossly overweight middle aged man and another with strategically pixeled in full monty is not my kind of comedy. It may excite a different group of audience altogether.
I am surprised that Cohen is a Cambridge scholar and this film has many titles under its belt and was even nominated for Best Actor, Best Film and many more in 2006. Give a miss, give a miss.....
And don't even get me going on Cohen's next movie 'Bruno' (2009)!
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