[lbo-talk] Borat

[ravi]

At around 6/11/06 11:45 am, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> My review of this fine film:
> 
> <http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2006/11/hype-is-to-believing.html>
> 
> Sacha Baron Cohen, however, has a different agenda, and through Borat
> he pretty much achieves it. Borat could come from any Baltic or Near
> East country, and in Baron Cohen's able hands, the results would be
> the same. His being from Kazakhstan has less to do with that actual
> country, and more to do with exposing the geographical ignorance of
> those Americans Borat meets.
>

I hope if that is true that value compensates for the misuse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1940460,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

How funny foreigners are

As Borat knows, the British love xenophobic humour - except when the
joke's on them

Peter Preston
Monday November 6, 2006
The Guardian

[...]

Sacha Baron Cohen's parody reporter comes from some universal parody
land, Neverneverstan, where foreignness itself is funny: and since he's
a brilliant, anarchic clown, that's more than enough to set cinema box
offices bulging. Who, apart from Kazakhstan's small, smart-suited
president could possibly grow aggrieved? Oz coped with Dame Edna, after
all. Can't Kazakhs laugh with the world and forget that the world laughs
at them? In a sense, their outrage only makes things worse.

[...]

	--ravi