Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

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Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageously funny comedy creation is a loveable, racist, homophobic, bigoted, anti-Semitic Kazakh who travels to America to make a documentary, talking to TV broadcasters, etiquette teachers and Christian fundamentalists along the way.

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2 discs. Three featurettes; over 30 mins of deleted scenes.

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Review by Milo Wakelin on 1st February 2007

Maligned and praised in equal measure, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh creation has kicked up a media storm on both sides of the Atlantic. It would be a shame if all this sound and fury distracted from the film itself, which is cleverer, more thoughtful, and less cynical than the majority of its critics.
The storyline is simple: Borat, a top Kazakh reporter, is sent to gather information about the USA, stopping off at a Rodeo, learning etiquette, chatting with feminist academics, and developing a crush on Pamela Anderson along the way.

Directed by Curb your Enthusiasm alumnus Larry Charles, Borat seamlessly segues between improvised and scripted scenes, weaving fly on the wall footage with carefully crafted setups. The result is Laurel and Hardy a la Lars Von Trier, but where Stan and Oliver settle their differences by wrestling naked.

The result is as much an celebration of America as it is an expose. For every bigoted redneck or drunken fratboy, there is the reminder that America, as a nation of immigrants, derives its strength, and its comedy, from diversity. And that’s a lesson we can all Make Benefit from.

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Article - "Funny Ha Ha: A Brief History of the New American Comedy" by Mike McCahill
Friday 7th December 2007

The film journal Sight & Sound claimed recently that the American cinema is going through a period comparable to the golden age of the early 1970s. It’s a bold statement, though one chiefly premised on the present wave of dramas concerned with the fallout from an unp...  View article in full

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