Posted on 05/27/2021 4:12:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Amazon recently released a docuseries by none other than Borat Sagdivev. Of course, Borat is a fictional character, one of many played by English actor Sacha Baron Cohen. The agitprop pushed by Cohen -- his comedic specialty -- offers an ivory tower glimpse of how cultural elites view average Americans. The latest “documentary” -- yes, that term is used loosely here -- is another example of narrative-driven infotainment that remains questionable at best.
For background, the original Borat movie was released in 2006. Ostensibly, it was about a Kazakh journalist traveling to the United States in the hopes of translating American success stories to his own country. The film’s overt humor comes from the foibles of culture clashes through physical comedy while Cohen remains in character as Borat. Sadly, the subverted plot was to humiliate unwitting participants by capturing their off-color comments to perpetuate stereotypes of anything to the right of lockstep progressive ideology.
A second Borat movie was released during the run-up to the 2020 election. Here again, the comedic target was all things conservative -- especially political figures who do not conform to leftist talking points. All of this is a prologue to the Amazon & Cohen collaboration released this week that once again mocks “backward” Americans.
The insidious premise of each Borat production is that unadulterated pride in America is dangerous and wrongheaded. Of course, it takes an Englishman to tell Americans how “wrong” they are in their patriotism.
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Great post.
I always hoped he would get his lights punched out.
“I always hoped he would get his lights punched out.”
Here’s a story where he was identified and did what every coward does; he ran. I have a feeling that your hope might have come true if he had stayed around. I also have a feeling that running away when he’s caught is what he does but you’ll never see that in his movies.
Ironic that for all its leftist PC crap, Borat features a stereotype of a foreigner from Kazakhstan.
Surely we conservatives could make films the same way; showing the Leftists in all their glory...
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