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...when a rabidly xenophobic cowboy asks Borat directly in the movie if he is a Muslim or not. Caught off-guard by the question, Cohen states in character that he is not a Muslim but a Kazakh (a curious answer owing to Kazazhstan’s large Muslim population). Cohen??s Borat then tries to lighten up the moment by saying that instead of following Islam he “follows the hawk” (a flippant reference to Kazakhstan’s flag...
...Cohen??s uneasy responses to this cowboy are telling, since a lot of the movie’s revelry in Muslim “backwardness” remains awkwardly below the surface. Many of the gags, in fact, are not dependent on an explicit understanding of the movie within the context of the West’s recent encounters with Islam...
...television show “Borat,” part of “Da Ali G Show,” in which comedian Sacha Baron Cohen??s character first appeared, thrives on idiocy and prejudice. At its best, the show is a hilarious and biting social commentary on society’s bigotry and absurdities. Its foolish victims feel perfectly comfortable revealing their prejudices to some dumb and irrelevant foreigner, or else are too polite to disagree with him. For the most part, they have only themselves to blame for their humiliation...
While hardcore Borat fans will inevitably be disappointed by the recycling job, the greatest surprise in “Borat” comes from Cohen??s new emphasis on crude slapstick humor. That’s not to say that the “Jackass”-style antics in the film (nude male wrestling, a live bear in an ice cream truck, the attempted abduction of Pamela Anderson) aren’t funny, just that it doesn’t take a comedic mind of Cohen??s caliber to decide that a fat naked...
Perhaps these segments are meant to spice up the narrative, and keep casual viewers happy; in any case, this “gonzo comedy” suits Fox (the film’s distributors) far more than Cohen??s old “Da Ali G Show” home HBO. Cohen??s real strength, here as always, is in using his deadpan portrayal of a totally oblivious foreigner to expose prejudice and hypocrisy in the supposedly civilized world...