Susan Hated Literature

1. Point the first:
   Conferring was yesterday, so that meant a half-day off work. And I’ve another half day today. Yay for half days. Plus I’ll be taking the 23rd off, and maybe the 24th, so November is a great day for its lack of work. Plus Christmas holidays start on the 20th of Dec till Jan 3rd. Which is nice.
2. Uimhir a dó:
   Went to see Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan last night. That is some pretty fucked up shit and no mistakes. Hilarious, but fucked up. And in case you’ve seen it and are wondering what is real and what isn’t Salon have a guide so you don’t have to do any work of your own.
3. 3:
   I’m turning into a racist, or maybe just a poster-racist. Honestly. Seeing all those Polish ads up with no word of English is starting to bug me. Not as much as the dud who scribbled “Write in fucking English” on the Polish note^[1] in out apartment block.
4. Point the 4th:
   It felt really Christmassy yesterday. But I still haven’t bought any presents yet.
5. FIVE:
   Those Brian O’Driscoll posters^[2] on the sides of Dublin Bus look shockingly bad.
6. Point the 6th:
   The end.

Tags: Borat, Brian O'Driscoll, Happy Christmas, racism, randomness, work

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Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Dir: Larry Charles
Writ: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer, & Todd Philips

• Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat Sagdiyev
• Ken Davitian - Azamat Bagatov
• Luenell - Luenell

It is pretty impossible to review this film, because it is, in essence, just some fucked up shit happening across the “US and A”, but is hilarious. I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in ages, and certainly never when trying not to look at what was going on on screen.

I was never that impressed by the Borat character on the telly, but Cohen does a marvellous job here, never breaking character and always coming across with just enough, I’m not sure what to call it, vulnerability or innocence maybe, whatever it is, it enables him to get away with things and to let people open up and agree with him, or explain that a Hummer might kill a few gypsies even if only travelling at 35 miles an hour.

The beauty of the Borat character is that is makes everyone look bad. If you just smile and nod politely then you come across as though you are agreeing with him and his anti-whichever race he is insulting at the moment. If you walk off in disgust, well then you really can’t take a joke. Although how exactly you are supposed to take a joke if you don’t know it is a joke I’m not sure. And if you start to show your true feelings and agree that “gays should be strung up”, well, enough said.

Still, that is all far too serious for this film, because basically Borat is a film that lets us laugh at everyone while keeping our sense of being so much better than those people in the film.

Though I do hope that those frat boys, the ones who proclaimed that you should sleep with as many women as possible and never call them back because you don’t respect them, are made famous by this, and never ever ever get a girl, ever again.

Hilarious, but so very very wrong, in so many many ways.

IMDb | Apropos of Something | Defending Borat | Film Narrative | Forever Geek

Tags: 8 Stars, Anthony Hines, Azamat Bagatov, Borat, comedy, cultural differences, Dan Mazer, fucked-up shit, gross comedy, Larry Charles, Luenell, Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Todd Philips

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