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...major, like a little burst of sun after the melancholic dinosaur storm. It’s just too bad that the disc ends on a more mainstream note. As enjoyable as “Dancers in the Dust” is, it rises up like Shrek at movie??s end: triumphant, bursting with light, but never really changed. Calla’s a band that sounds like Snow Patrol after being mauled by Minus the Bear. Their Dinosaur Rock may occasionally feel tried and archaic, but at least it’s a different beast...
...teaching abilities. “Is she a sphinx, or merely stupid?” Dench’s character inquires with characteristic acidity in one of the narrative voice-overs that take regular—and usually shocking—extracts from her journal entries. According to the movie??s tagline, “one woman’s mistake is another’s opportunity,” and Covett parlays Sheba’s guilt at being discovered making love to one of her students (catch the Biblical reference?) into what she believes...
...hands of a lesser filmmaker, the movie??s premise could have been little more than a schlocky script, fleshed out by A-listers looking to bank some cash and keep their visibility...
Borat, the movie??s protagonist, hails from Kazakhstan, a nation which we are told has some of the cleanest prostitutes in central Asia. Cohen himself looks vaguely Muslim (Cohen is actually half-Israeli and half-Welsh) and his character Borat is incredibly out of sync with Western mores. Borat’s blend of misogyny, anti-Semitism, and general backwardness all carefully correspond with American stereotypes of Islam. Importantly, these are not always traits that Americans impute indiscriminately to all other cultures...
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...