MOVIE REVIEW FOR "BORAT"
MOVIE REVIEW FOR :"BORAT"
art and review by Phillip Seahorn
| Starring: | Sacha Baron Cohen, Kenneth Devitian, Luenell, Pat Haggerty, Alan Keyes |
| Directed by: | Larry Charles |
| Produced by: | Monica Levinson, Dan Mazer (II), Jay Roach |
However, this movie shows America for what it is, especially the Midwest.Racist,ignorant,and the prime example of why the rest of the world hates it.
And people are paying MILLIONS to see and hear this.
Sasha Baron Cohen is the modern day Charlie Chaplin.Cohen is brilliant, and when we see him, I can only think of what Lenny Bruce was to the people in the U.S. in the late fifties and sixties.
A recent review of the movie on television stated that this movie is a horror story.The reviewer was horrified at the racist, ignorant things that Cohen ( who is now in a legal battle because of this) got people to say and be on camera.This movie is one of the best social commentary movies about America in a long time. To hear a drunk, white frat boy say that slavery should be reinstated in the U.S. (and this motherfucker meant EVERY word he said) was when you could hear a pin drop in the theatre. THEY are the motherfuckers that are suing Cohen, on the pretense that they were told that the movie would not be shown in the U.S.
WHAT THE FUCK?!!!??
I don't know how a Brit can have so much insight into the U.S., but I remember a professor I once had who told me to only read foreign newspapers to get the real deal on what is going on in the U.S.
This movie proves it.
Now, as to this movie being the funniest movie ever made.
NOT.
The "Borat" schtick got old ten minutes into the movie. His accent was all over the place. The Kazakhstan racist humor got old REALLY quick.I really was at the movie just to see how outrageous this motherfucker would get.And he delivered. The humor was more cerebral and mocking, with totally outrageous shit thrown in the mix.
However, Cohen should get some kind of award for the fight scene .It was perhaps in the top ten best comedy scenes ever filmed, I'll give him that.
The movie as a whole was a GOOD movie, with elements of the movie that ranks it in the "best ever in movies" category.I think that this is a first for a movie, when the MESSAGE of the movie far surpasses the movie itself.
I have also noticed that the reviews of the movie have been fluctuating between "A" and "B".This is because this movie, in and of itself, is so unique for movie purists.This movie may not be as good of a movie as it is to the "social conscious" movie goers.
But go see this movie.
THE SEAHORN MOVIEMETER:"B-"
posted by PHILLIP SEAHORN @ 5:10 PM
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