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Wednesday, May 1
The Indiana Daily Student

Borat will not 'be execute'

Wa wa wi wa! Is a gooood movie!

I never thought I would rave about a movie where the main character repeatedly bashed Judaism and is involved in a full-frontal male nudity scene that prompts him to say, "My moustache still tastes of your testes," but "Borat" is niiiice. \nI'd waited two anxious years for the Borat movie after becoming obsessed with talking like Sacha Baron Cohen's character on "Da Ali G Show," and somehow the film exceeded my wildest expectations. I tell you more. Dzienkuje. \nFor every word in the incessantly long title, there are dozens of unforgettable scenes in Borat's first movie. Our main man is Cohen as a television reporter from Kazakhstan, sent to America to learn about the greatest country in the world, US and A. High five! \nWhile here, Borat has trouble adjusting to the American way of life as he tries to learn lessons to make benefit, well, you read the title. He realizes NYC subway riders aren't down to kiss on the cheek, and that asking girls, "How much?" on the street, and calling a hotel clerk "vanilla face," are not kosher. \nSpeaking of kosher, if taken literally, the film is quite anti-Semitic, as Borat blames the Jews for 9/11 and runs away from friendly Jews at a bed and breakfast who just want to give him a little nosh. The jokes are a little excessive but are hard to take seriously coming from Cohen, a British Jew. \nBorat's motivation for the second act of the film is to find and marry Pamela Anderson after falling in love with her character on "Baywatch." Many of the subjects are unaware Borat is faking it, but Anderson had to be in on the bit. Otherwise, Cohen would be in jail for what he did to her at a signing, instead of appearing on Conan asking for his valuable red pubic hair while promoting the film. \nMuch like in the show, Cohen really excels at making interview subjects expose their inner bigots to him when they are unaware Borat is faking it. One man reveals he wishes we could hang homosexuals, a couple of college guys say they wish we still had slaves and a gun salesman shows him which gun is best to shoot a Jew. \nThe film is basically a one-man traveling circus, but credit also must go to director Larry Charles, who adds this film onto a stacked resume filled with "Seinfeld," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Entourage." He keeps the film quick, to the point and weaves the story well with the Pamela Anderson thread. \nThis movie is offensive and will make you squirm, but will make you laugh harder than anything I've seen in years. At 80 minutes, the film is short, but edited together well to provide a comedy "tighter than a man's anus." Great success!

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