Nobody likes a smart Alec!

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: 2020
Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

Yes, that is the final name to Borat's 2006 follow-up mockumentary. The title went through many name changes; the previous ones were equally ridiculous and ridiculously long. It also has the dubious reputation of incurring the wrath of many Americans (and Kazhaks) and attracting many legal suits. The Kazaks were just as pissed for depicting them as a bunch of village fools ruled by a despotic regime.

If one is looking for a Wodehousian type of humour in this offering, look elsewhere. It is a lowbrow comedy through and through with toilet humour, genitals, menstruation and all.

It was strategically released before the US Presidential elections and contains some not so savoury depiction of Trump's lawyer and former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, in a hotel room kerfuffle with a young journalist. It is all a prank, and the film is full of it. Borat holds a mirror to the Americans right on their face to showcase their latest embarrassing side. He prods the gullible public in the manner of a naive East European native who is struggling with his English to ask current questions like whether one should vote for the Democrats. Their hypocrisy is laid bare for us to scrutinise.

In a scene, Borat's 16-year-old daughter had swallowed a toy baby figurine on a cupcake. This is obviously referring to the Pizzagate scandal where allegedly prominent figures are involved in Satanic practices like eating babies. She is then brought to a Woman's Clinic for treatment run by a pastor. Borat with his bumbling English telling the pastor, "My daughter got baby in stomach, I want to take out. I give her baby. (referring to the cupcake he had fed her or is it incest he is indicating?)" is just too funny.

The film has another court case against the estate of a recently deceased Holocaust survivor who was apparently tricked into an interview which was subsequently included in the film. Many of the 'participants' in the movie are mere passers-by.
On one side, the viewers will go off thinking that it is a Democrat bashing movie. Then we realise that Trump, his party members and the Republican supporters are also not spared of his caustic sarcasm.

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Piece of white trash

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)!