Caught this film on DVD last night and I must say it was a scream, I haven’t laughed so much in a long time. I’m not generally much of a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen but this was a real hoot. It’s a strange mix of real footage and obvious set up, sometime it gets hard to be sure which bits are real and which bits are fake.
Of course it doesn’t paint too good a picture of Americans, making them all look rather aggressive, insular, overly patriotic religious zealots but having met a fair few Americans in my time I can see that this is clearly staged to show this side of the country. Sacha, could have just have easily filmed this in any country and shown the worst side of that society. What I am amazed at is the fact that the guy is still alive, how he managed to get out of the rodeo in one piece I’ll never know (watch it and you’ll see what I mean).
Just typing this brings back memories of so many funny scenes that I find myself sat here chuckling. Apart from taking the mickey out of Americans there are also some really bad taste scenes, one in particular finds Borat fighting naked with his seriously overweight producer, while the scene makes you cringe, you just can’t help watching and laughing.
If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend this film. Even as someone who’s not a great fan of his other work, this was the best fun I’ve had with a film for a long long time.
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