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...whole film reeks ever so slightly of this sort of bait and switch; the viewer, ignorant of how many Americans Borat interviewed before finding his tidbits of intolerance, is meant by implication to accept that his mockumentary is some sort of representative sample...
...latter, Borat and his producer think that the elderly Jews have turned themselves into cockroaches, and throw money at them desperately in an attempt to escape with their lives. The two German grad students next to me at the screening laughed a little less loudly at these jokes...
...What Borat wants from America—a big car, a roadtrip to California, lessons in how to be cool from black youth, Pamela Anderson—are all distilled essences of shared American dreams...
...enacting these material fantasies, Cohen isn’t playing Borat as ignorant of America; indeed, these are the American exports famous the world over. If anything, Borat has received the messages our culture has sent all too well, a more sophisticated point that hides beneath the surface-level farce...
...course, without cheap shots, there would be no Borat. Could Cohen get away with blatantly mocking many other nations? His gay Austrian character on “Da Ali G Show,” Bruno, is a ridiculous, hyper-flamboyant character, but he isn’t an indictment of all of Austria, just as Ali G and his “Staines massive” gang don’t represent the entirety of England...