What are you people smoking? This is the most overrated movie since 'Braveheart!' It's hard-hitting satirical revelations: some prosperous Southerners are genteelly racist, a few old cowboys are homophobic, frat-boys are misogynists. Is there something new here? Some subtlety that I'm missing? 'Subtlety,' Mr. Cohen, the word is 'subtlety'. Oh, you don't? It's pronounced 'suttle-tea.' Oh, you still don't... Well, never mind. The intention is obvious - the Man-from-Mars comes to the ruling civilization, and by making naive mistakes and asking innocent questions underlines the hypocrisy and contradictions of that civilization. That's one of the intentions, anyway. The other, I suspect, was to get as much mileage as possible out of anti-PC, out of misogyny and of mocking poor and retarded people, under the guise of satire. Incidentally, when 'Borat' tries to take on a real PC target, it falls flat. The feminists he confronts are not shrill or unreasonable, and they quickly realize that he is bullsh***ing them, and refuse to play along. Unlike the frat-boys, they refuse to be used.
Review of Borat
