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BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHKSTAN / Larry Charles (2006)

November 6th, 2006 by Scott Marks

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Directed by: Larry Charles

Written by: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines

Genres: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Ilham Äliyev, Bob Barr, Alan Keyes

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Rating: ★★★★★

Any film that has both the Iranian government and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) calling for its boycott must be devoutly cherished.

On September 28 the ADL issued a statement voicing concern over “one serious pitfall… the audience may not always be sophisticated enough to get the joke, and that some may even find it reinforcing their bigotry.”

All this ado simply because the filmmakers chose to document the ceremonial “Running of the Jew” through the streets of Kazakhstan. Then there are the elderly Jewish proprietors of a Bed and Breakfast blessed (as all Jews are) with the ability to shape-shift. When the couple transforms into a pair of cockroaches, Borat wisely wards them off by showering them with money. And who can blame our otherwise plucky hero for insisting on traveling by car. Is he the only one terrified that the Jews will “repeat their attack on 9/11?”

Spike Lee can only dream of pulling off satire as subtle and effective as this.

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