4 ms·
You know, I gotta say that time has not been kind to Borat. The casual racism in the service of satire feels pretty dated today and not in a good way.
by AbrahamParangi 4y ago
You know, I gotta say that time has not been kind to Borat. The casual racism in the service of satire feels pretty dated today and not in a good way.
- meitham 4y agoI fully agree! My comment wasn't to endorse his movie but merely to suggest an origin for the main plot.
- codetrotter 4y agoThe point of the Borat movie was to make fun of western peoples beliefs about foreign people and foreign cultures. In order to capture the audience, it uses satire. It takes ideas about foreign people, exaggerates these ideas even further, and investigates how people react to these exaggerated ideas. It turned out that even when taken to ridiculous extremes, many people (as seen in the movie) were willing to buy the idea that Borat was a real person from a foreign country. Borat does feel dated now. But perhaps that also means, the movie was effective on some level, in highlighting these beliefs? And perhaps even to help combat said beliefs?
- zozbot234 4y agoWhat Borat did in his film was purposefully ridicule dirt poor people from Eastern Europe, making them look like bigoted idiots who might live in a makeshift barn with their cow and playing the whole thing for laughs. There was a lot about it that really was kinda despicable.
- ipaddr 4y agoWait until you hear about early sesame street
- proshno 4y ago