Borat (2006)

Rating: 0%
If there could be one time that I would've decided to sleep in and ditch class, today could've been the day. Because in my Documentary Film class, we actually watched this horrid movie, Borat!

Plot: Now while it's a documentary, it's basically laid out like a narrative film. Borat Sagdiyev, a popular Kazakh television reporter, goes on a trip to America to make a documentary film to some fictional Kazakh ministry. But while he's in new work, he watches an episode of Baywatch and falls in love with Pamela Anderson. So he deceives his producer Azamat in order to help him go to California and make Anderson his wife. Along the way he meets a lot of different people which eventually causes him to end up in a who lot of trouble.

Now from a documentary point of view, it works. I mean when we discussed the movie at the end of class, we talked about how this was well used in a reverse psychology kind of way and stuff like that. And it apparently work in terms of teaching how Documentary films aren't that different from narrative films. But there's so many things that are wrong about this movie, that it's a miracle that Sacha Baron Cohen and the film crew managed to not get arrested pretty much every time. (which there were several points where they could have.) Now I understand that there are people who love this kind of comedy. I mean half of the class was laughing as we watched this. But since I am NOT one of those people, this may as well have given me a reason to miss the twins from Revenge of the Fallen and heck, maybe even Hangover part II!!!!

Music: Annoying as heck. Didn't really help while putting up with the crap in this movie.

Editing: Well i didn't pay too much attention to the editing (especially when Borat and Azamat fight naked) But I think it worked in terms of the movie as a documentary.


And that's my review for Borat. While some may love it, it was one of the most horrid things I have ever had to put up with and I hope I forget about it long before the day is over. So if you need me, I'll be using Nostalgia Critic videos, comics, the last harry potter book, new movies from the library and heck, maybe even my Philosophy of Religion class to hopefully (if the Lord is willing) make that dream a reality.