Thursday, November 09, 2006
Borat is Back
I just love Borat! One of the brilliant British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's cinematic personas who cleverly allures out and reveals imbedded racism and sexism in the Western society by acting as a such himself! And after years of waiting for a movie and anticipating I finally got to see "Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" that was hyped since more than a year ago! And it was, despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews, what I had anticipated! A rather loose feature with a thin plot that is hold together by the usual Borat segments! Borat works best in such short improv. acts where his counterparts are not actors and not aware of the true situation! Borat acting according to a plot and in interaction with fellow actors doesn’t hold and carry unfortunately! So hopefully we will see more of his stronger satirical side (short segments) in the future and less Hollywood-esque features! Those who are not familar with Borat's previous work will find this movie GREAT but those who have seen Borat's older clips will find this movie as a pale copy-compilation of his stronger segments!