Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
In bullet form, because I am lazy today:
- Much funnier than I expected
- I was a bit surprised by how...tolerant, I guess, the people at the Southern dinner party were
- I thought it was pretty funny that the one feminist that seemed to catch on to the Borat gimmick was the elderly lady - a lot of the time older people are kind of uppity and don't like being "duped" (e.g.: the rodeo guy)
- There is not enough alcohol in the world to erase some of this movie from my brain, and I really wish there was (though oddly enough it was much less horrifying than Kids)
- Alan Keyes's appearance was really unexpected and made 5000% funnier in light of all the nonsense he spouted when he ran for Congress here in 2004
- I am amazed that Sacha Baron Cohen was able to stay in character the whole time
- The biting social commentary is ultimately worth all of the horrifingly awkward and cringeworthy moments. The church and fratboy scenes were scary, no doubt. But I thought the most important scene in the entire movie was the rodeo one. The fact that his ridiculous statements had to go as far as implying nuclear holocaust before he got any kind of reaction besides approval was very telling of the mindset of a small but very powerful segment of the population.
- The funniest scene for me was actually a deleted scene. Borat telling the doctor about his retarded brother's lobotomy really hit my comedy funny bone. I think it might have had something to do with the completely random inclusion of a woman's tooth in the procedure.
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