Borat may be a little tired but Sacha Baron Cohen is still a genius. I’ll be watching Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan tomorrow evening on Amazon Prime. Jagshemash?
Tales of True Adventure for Rugged Men Not Unlike Yourself
His movies are so cringeworthy, I can hardly stand them. Also seems like we’ve seen the most interesting part.
NYT had a great article on him last weekend.
”In 2005, you needed a character like Borat who was misogynist, racist, anti-Semitic to get people to reveal their inner prejudices,” he said. ”Now those inner prejudices are overt. Racists are proud of being racists.’’ When the president is ”an overt racist, an overt fascist,’’ he said, “it allows the rest of society to change their dialogue, too.
”My aim here was not to expose racism and anti-Semitism,” he said of the sequel. ”The aim is to make people laugh, but we reveal the dangerous slide to authoritarianism.”
You can’t believe that Tom Hayden got Jane Fonda.
Yes, I can’t.