BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN
Screenplay by Sasha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer
Story by Sasha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Todd Phillips
Directed by Larry Charles
Picture it: a movie theatre in Kitchener. People are watching a movie satirizing…well, EVERYTHING…and the side effect is a hundred people moaning, howling and screaming through their tears of laughter, begging to make the pain stop before their internal organs explode.
This is the effect of Borat. It’s an effect I can’t even begin to describe with any coherence…because you will either LOVE this movie (we’re talking army of virgins/heavenly angel love)…or you will HATE this movie…HATE HATE HATE it.
This movie is best described by its quotes. Judge for yourself:
Borat: Although Kazakhstan a glorious country, it have a problem, too: economic, social and Jew
Borat, post-gay pride:
Borat: You telling me the man who try to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?
Borat, when a prostitute interrupts a classy party:
Dinner Host: I called the police. Borat: Why? Did the retard escape?
Boart, not in the LEAST bit paranoid:
Borat: [narrating] He insist we not fly, in case the Jews repeated their attack of 9/11.
Borat, on his neighbour:
Borat: He is my neighbor, Nushuktan Tulyiagby, he is pain in my assholes. I get a window from a glass, he must get a window from a glass. I get a step, he must get a step. I get a clock-radio, he cannot afford. Great success!
Borat, full of hope:
Borat: I arrived in America’s airport with clothings, U.S dollars and a jar of gypsy tears to protect me from AIDS.
Borat, in lust:
Borat: What kind of car can I buy that attract woman with hairless vagine?
Car Dealership owner: That would be a Corvette.
Borat, surrounding by costumed people in California:
Borat, pushing away a man dressed up in Hollywood: Fuck off, Death!
Patriotic Borat:
Borat: [singing the Kazakhi national anthem] Kazakstan is the greatest country in the world, all other countries are run by little girls. Kazakhstan is number one exporter of potassium, Other Central Asian countries have inferior potassium.
Borat, discovering a woman’s suburban yard sale:
Gipsy! Give me your tears! If you will not give them to me, I will take them from you!
I will look through your treasures, gypsy. Is this understood?
Borat at Church:
Borat: Do Jesus love my neighbor, Nusultan Tulyakbay?
Pentecostal church pastor: Yes, Jesus loves your neighbor.
Borat: [correcting him] Nobody like my neighbor Nusultan Tulyakbay.
This movie was utterly brilliant…and I will NEVER see it again!
0 or 10…depends on your taste…though I’m favouring the latter…
