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Wa wa wee wa! Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is finally here, and while nothing could reproduce the shock and awe of the original, the return of Kazakhstan’s favorite son to the screen is, at the very least, an event.
Sadly, the pandemic kept this out of theaters, but its wide availability through Amazon means everyone can tune in at once. This is your chance to talk about the wildest moments: litigious, creepy, or both.
America’s mayor
By now you’ve probably gone frame by frame to the scandalous bedroom “shirt-fitting” moment that caused a sensation even before the movie was released.
Is this an innocent moment where the subject of an interview simply moves his clothes after removing a microphone? Or does the three-time divorced 76-year-old think that, in the language of the film, he’s about to have some sexy time with a news anchor whose tint would make Tomi Lahren blush?
Certainly editing comes into play (this is a comedy, not a documentary), but the facts are that they touch their knees a lot, they hold hands (in violation of Covid’s easier-to-follow social distancing guidelines) and Maria Bakalova Tutar Sagdiyev is positively excited about Giuliani, and is eating him up.
After the invitation to the bedroom (?!) For a drink (?!), And after he puts his hand on the small of her back (?!) And asks for her phone number (?!). .. do you sleep with? Do you have your hands in your pants as if you were, as zoologists would say, “introducing yourself” to you? Do you get the feeling that you’ve been in this set of circumstances before and it has worked to your advantage? He yells “oopp!” when Borat runs into the room and orders her to lower his penis, like he knows this doesn’t look right.
Or is it a deliberate misinterpretation of nothing more than a slightly strange circumstance?
Giuliani himself He says this is a total fabrication and that the image seems manipulated, but many, even Olaf, feels that Trump’s personal attorney career is officially over.
To Giuliani’s credit, he called police at the time, suggesting that he was not afraid of an investigation, but was alerting authorities to an unusually dressed man, not to mention the scene he interrupted. However, supporters of Giuliani and Trump have shown remarkable tolerance for questionable behavior, so Rudy’s viability in the infotainment market might be something even Borat can’t stop.
If this were a world where things made sense, it should be rejected simply for saying, as it does in this movie, that: “China made the virus and let it out. And they deliberately spread it all over the world. ”This is as absurd as what the two Republican supporters in the booth say about Hillary Clinton drinking blood, but those guys don’t have the ear of the President of the United States.
Moonblood
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm unfortunately doesn’t have as hilarious a sequence as the naked fight in the original. But the Kazakh fertility dance in the debutante ball is coming. Tutar, Borat’s daughter, lifting her dress as she finds herself in the midst of an intense torrent, shakes the room of gentile southerners. In fact, menstruation is the last undiscovered country for comedy in a world where cocks seemingly parade.
What is far more repulsive than a natural biological event for half the planet is the grotesque old man who suggests that a night with Tutar would be worth $ 500. Although he whispers, his daughter listens and is mortified. It’s a true “holy shit” moment in the Borat tradition, but it’s annoying when you consider that you probably hear much worse at home.
Introducing Maria Bakalova
And speaking of young women debuting … who the heck is Maria Bakalova ?! Coinciding with Sacha Baron Cohen for her bravery and comedic moment, she is, without a doubt, the find of the year. And the only thing the new movie has that the original doesn’t have is a genuinely poignant (though certainly silly) emotional arc. Tell me you didn’t feel a little chill when father and daughter showed up at the end in matching outfits!
The 24-year-old Bulgarian actress has only been in a few projects, including an episode of the Italian crime series Gomorrah and the Bulgarian film Transgression, in which she plays a young woman in a relationship with an older rock star.
If you want to talk about a full and committed performance in a movie this year, there isn’t much competition. Frances McDormand already has two Academy Awards. Spread the wealth around a bit and let the prize of 2020, which is already a rare year with an asterisk, go to Bakalova.
‘Very good time that we have been monitoring’
Sacha Baron Cohen came out “as himself” last year to condemn Facebook’s lethargic response to Holocaust denial on his service. This becomes a plot point where Borat’s worldview is shattered when he “learns” that the Holocaust never happened. (For Borat, of course, the systematic attempted genocide of Jews is one of his greatest sources of pride.)
Anyway, Borat is depressed and wants to commit suicide, so he heads to the nearest synagogue to wait for the next mass shooting. He comes dressed as a “Jew” (with claws, bat wings, a ridiculous fake nose, a cartoonish money sack in one hand, and puppets controlling “the media” in the other) and ends up meeting two kindly old Jewish ladies who take him down. of the letter and try to see beyond hatred. For the purposes of the story, Borat is delighted to hear that the octogenarian Judith Dim Evans witnessed the concentration camps firsthand.
If you look at the end credits to the end, you will see that the movie is dedicated to Dim Evans, who died after filming. One quote reads: “I feel obligated to be a good person and bring good to the world. We owe it to the dead, ”and there is a link to their website. However, in a strange twist, some of his family members are pursuing a lawsuit against the production.
It’s hard to understand why the estate feels that the late Dim Evans suffered some kind of actionable mental anguish. The Baron Cohen costume in this scene is ridiculous, and it’s hard to imagine anyone thinking this is anything more than a joke. That the comedian who has devoted much of his energy to fighting anti-Semitism then “removed his mask” to ensure that the Holocaust survivor was involved in the joke seems a major mitigating factor. Do you agree, or are you joking with someone who lost relatives in the Nazi death camps too far away, even for Borat?
‘This can not be real‘
We’ve been saying this as we watched Sacha Baron Cohen’s antics for years, but it’s getting harder and harder to tell when moments have stumbled into script territory. (One almost appreciates when faces are blurry, like someone greeting Sieg Heil at the far-right rally.)
The actor claims that he was locked up for five days with the QAnon crazies, but it starts to feel a bit fake when they go from people who are laughed at for their idiotic opinions to characters who really drive the narrative (admittedly thin). Once Borat sends them out to persuade Tutar to let his father come back into his life, does something stink?
‘I hope this is not real’
That said, it would make life a little easier if some of the voices in our doomed society could be dismissed as false. The propane salesman who boasts that his tanks can wipe out a gypsy van is perhaps worse than anything Baron Cohen has ever caught before. The woman who decorates a cake with “Jews won’t replace us” isn’t great either. The plastic surgeon suggested that he would love to “have a sexy moment” with Tutar, but unfortunately not in front of his father (who wants to pay cash for a breast operation), hopefully he will see a drop in patients after this week .
And while few would expect less from the Conservative Political Action Conference, it is telling that they were more excited to see someone in fake Trump garb than the Ku Klux Klan robes.
Until that last point, big redirect in movie marketing here. We were led to believe that Mike Pence’s interruption would be the culmination of chaos. While it’s hilarious to see Trump’s fat suit in action, this is one of the tamest moments in the movie.
Big success!!
Sacha Baron Cohen retired Borat in late 2007 in part because he was too popular. No one could be fooled by someone so famous. (In fact, this is a major plot point in Subsequent Moviefilm, hence Borat’s need to wear costumes.) But something he doesn’t mention is that for 14 years, society has been blessed / plagued by people who make the Borat Voice.
I will confess, I am also guilty. There are too many phrases and it is just too funny. I’m yelling in Borat’s voice at my cat right now. “Do you eat the croquette? Very nice!!!”
Wisely, Subsequent Moviefilm gets a lot out of this early on. The opening lines are a cascade of slogans, like a band performing their hit singles early out of obligation.
“Jagshemash!” the movie begins. “My name is Borat. My wife is niiiiiice – NO! “
The subsequent movie begins with Borat doing Borat Voice. Sparkly.
Fax subject
Borat matters, most critics will tell you, because it reflects how American values are not so different from the absurd projections of what “shit countries” should be like. But Borat is a phenomenon because Sacha Baron Cohen and his gang of writers are so much fun.
One of the biggest laughs for me at Subsequent Moviefilm is a discard. Borat is faxing back and forth with his prime minister. The joke is that the man at the copy center doesn’t seem concerned that this mustached freak is planning to gift his 15-year-old daughter to Mike Pence, but there’s something beautiful about Borat’s healthy message which is “S’up. “. That the answer is the same but with an added question mark is an example of the light and absurd poetry that makes Baron Cohen a genius.
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