Rating: ****
Genre: Evil comedy, really evil.
Starring Sacha Baron Cohen as… Borat Sagdiyev!
As it is, this is also a long-outdated post… lolz… I seem to be blogging only a few sentences daily. Hah. That’s how sad my life is…
Well ok, this Borat movie… wasn’t intending to watch it… But finally gave in to my fren and went to watch during that long break we had for the New Year. Think I went on the Tuesday… yea… and where else to watch but at Vivocity? haha… really like the huge screen and leg room there… No evil people can trip me down over there!
This movie is not for the faint-hearted, the non-humourous, and those who walk on the too-straight-to-be-true road. Seriously, it’s anti-Jew, anti-gay, it’s just soooo wrong that it’s sooo funny! Haha… Actually I think underneath all this crass-ness, it was trying to poke fun at Big Bro and erm, their erm, xenophobic tendencies at times… and their um… I-am-a-big-and-powerful-nation mentality. (I tell ya, it’s so true… I’ve experienced it first hand, it was so true that I found it funny…)
It’s done in a documentary manner. Borat is a reporter from the great nation of K, who journeys to this land of America to learn more about their culture, so that he can make his own country greater! (like the US and A, which is what he calls it) Along the way, he takes lessons in humour, dining etiquette and interviews various people. I think that some of those people he interviewed (like some ex-senator and those etiquette teachers, the people in some Federation campaigning for women’s rights and so on) actually really believed that he was from Khazakstan and was really interviewing them for a documentary. I can’t imagine how scandalised they must have been by his behaviour and remarks! Midway during his journey, Borat catches sight of a Baywatch programme and sees Pamela Anderson (ok, my blog hit rate is going to shoot up just cuz I typed her name here…) and decides that he must make her his wife! hahaha… Of course Pamela Anderson had to be let in on this or else Borat wouldn’t be able to get even within an arm’s length of her, let alone try to stuff her in a gunny sack and carry her off (because he thought she was the perfect wife for him… ) You dunno how wrong that sounds to the rest of the world…
In summary (haha, Edna doesn’t seem to like this a lot), this is a movie where we laugh at ourselves as much as we laugh at others. The loathing feeling we get towards Borat at some points reminds us that we have once behaved like him, and how our behaviour would have been bilious to others… So the next time you make fun of someone else, or say something insensitive, or simply do something not too nice to another person, try to think how the other person would feel first, eh?
