Which also is kind of the point. Borat is a commentary on people.
I guess “throw the Jew down the well” is kinda funny just for the unhinged nature of the lyrics, but the real substance/funny (by absurdity) part is that he gets regular people to sing and go along with it.
I won’t deny that I laughed my ass off when I saw Borat. I loved how it skewered conservatives.
But still, picking a real country was a mistake. And lying about a documentary on poverty to a poor village is incredibly scummy, no way to sugarcoat it
Yeah I thought of that when I said it. The set up is overtly racist, and it walks a line where I COULD try to argue that it’s establishing Borat as a character, but it does definitely seem to lean more on shock value while character building as a fringe benefit.
Which also is kind of the point. Borat is a commentary on people.
I guess “throw the Jew down the well” is kinda funny just for the unhinged nature of the lyrics, but the real substance/funny (by absurdity) part is that he gets regular people to sing and go along with it.
I won’t deny that I laughed my ass off when I saw Borat. I loved how it skewered conservatives.
But still, picking a real country was a mistake. And lying about a documentary on poverty to a poor village is incredibly scummy, no way to sugarcoat it
Yeah I thought of that when I said it. The set up is overtly racist, and it walks a line where I COULD try to argue that it’s establishing Borat as a character, but it does definitely seem to lean more on shock value while character building as a fringe benefit.
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