Film review mockumentary (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)

Fig 1 Borat (2006)

 The film is quite a weird mockumentary film is starts off with Borat being the leading television personality of the glorious. from a socially backward and underdeveloped nation of Kazakhstan. The film sees him travel to America to film a documentary on why America is great. he has a few hiccups when he is there and gets into a bit of trouble. He offends everyone he meets. Borat encounters many different people and situations -- some of them staged and some improvised, "Candid Camera"-style, with unaware participants, as on Cohen's HBO TV series, "Da Ali G Show." (Emerson, 2006).

The film is very hard to watch if you don't have a sense of humour relating to realign and race. He pokes fun at many things and at sometimes makes the situation a bit awkward. it’s funny as well as some of the people are not acting and it makes the film feel like a prank show some of unmistakable look of real people really being astonished and horrified by Borat. The fascination of Borat's comedy situationism, his theatre of cruelty, is that its hero is deeply unsympathetic. Borat is just so horrible, with a deplorable quality mitigated only by his ineffectuality. (Bradshaw, 2006).

There are many gag parts and funny parts. If you have seen the work of this actor, then you know a bit of what he can do. This film is a mockumentary and is not meant to really offend anyone. Its him creating a character and showing him off to the American people, who at that time didn’t really know who Sacha Baron Cohen was or of his previous work. His film takes the mick out of who he is and talks about religion and race at the same time.

Fig 2 Borat pose (2006)

Bibliography

Emerson, Jim (2006) Borat review. At: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/borat-cultural-learnings-of-america-for-make-benefit-glorious-nation-of-kazakhstan-2006 (Accessed on 15.12.2017)

Bradshaw, Peter (2006) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. At: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/oct/27/comedy.sachabaroncohen (Accessed on 15.12.2017)

illustrations 

Fig 1. Borat (2006) [poster] At: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443453/

Fig 2. Borat pose (2006) [ photo] At: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161028-what-kazakhstan-really-thought-of-borat