Friday night I went to see Borat, or more precisely, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. It's not often you get such a vocal audience at a movie - lots of laughter, but also a lot of 'ewws' and 'no ways'. It's one of those movies that really pushes the envelope of good taste, but in it's own way, explores what makes the U.S.A. such a scary place to so many people. It relies heavily on the reactions of everyday people to the Borat character - after all, if you can't laugh at others, who can you laugh at? I'm not surprised that Sacha Baron Cohen is being sued by most of the people in the film.
Apparently, the cops were called on Cohen 91 times during the production of the movie.
All in all, it's a very funny, very offensive and sometimes revolting movie. The naked wrestling scene between Borat and his extremely overweight manager kinda summed up the whole thing for me. I laughed really hard, but I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Visit Borat's official website here.
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