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Jan. 24th, 2007 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cwfilmbuff7. Borat
I avoided this one because it seemed over-hyped and not my cup of tea. I was right on both counts. There’s some mild shock value at the beginning, but after 15 or 20 minutes I became numb to it and the rest of the movie was just the title character making people uncomfortable in an attempt at humor. Some of it was interesting, in the sense of seeing what people will say when they don’t think anyone in their country will see it, but I failed to see why it was such a big deal when it opened last year.
I also fail to see why the screenplay is up for an Oscar. If anything, the parts that were scripted (and quite a few clearly were) hurt the movie by casting doubt on the authenticity of the bits that were presented as spontaneous.
I avoided this one because it seemed over-hyped and not my cup of tea. I was right on both counts. There’s some mild shock value at the beginning, but after 15 or 20 minutes I became numb to it and the rest of the movie was just the title character making people uncomfortable in an attempt at humor. Some of it was interesting, in the sense of seeing what people will say when they don’t think anyone in their country will see it, but I failed to see why it was such a big deal when it opened last year.
I also fail to see why the screenplay is up for an Oscar. If anything, the parts that were scripted (and quite a few clearly were) hurt the movie by casting doubt on the authenticity of the bits that were presented as spontaneous.
