Monday, November 06, 2006

Borat--my least favorite movie of the year


This movie attempting to disgrace Kazakhstan and cause friction with its racist remarks really does the job.
The movie shows horrific conditions of Borats' country, then brings him to America where he is trying to learn lessons to help his own country. Well, the only lesson this movie shows is that driving across the country in a empty ice cream truck trying to find Pamela Anderson is not worth the trip.

The movie has a large amount of racists and offensive remarks, especially towards jewish people. The movie shows Kazakhstan having a "running with the Jew", similar to running with the bulls in Italy. Men from Kazakstan run away from large green heads portraying a jewish person. Borat also uses discriminating language throughout the entire movie.

His next inappropriate comment came not in what he said, but what he encouraged other to say. People from Texas were caught on camera saying things that could potentially be seen as slander towards those who are homosexual. You could feel the awkwardness in the theatres seats. Some say it is the "funniest movie of the year," well I thought it was "The most rude movie of the year."

The nakedness in the movie was funny, however, the comments made by Borat in the movie made it hardly worth the $7.00. Negative four stars from me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You might be interested in this blog post about the movie, written by a Jewish blogger.