Somethings are better left unsaid

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2006)

A lot of today's films are just plain old stupid. In fact, that is probably an apt description of the typical mainstream film: film purely for amusement. A cheap laugh. A brief thrill. Nothing else, and most certainly nothing that truly matters in the long run. Sure, people need to laugh and have fun as a part of a healthy life, but amusement for amusement's sake is like a drug. You want more and more and more until finally your view of amusement is literally insulting to any respectable person. Borat manages to accomplish that with all barrels blazing. The film is literally vulgar excess that can be best described at excrement of an ever rapidly declining art form. An utterly shameless glob of phlegm that you cough out with blood, because it is clinging to your throat like a determined parasite. However, this parasite infects your brain, which, in a sense, makes it more painful. Not to you, but to society as a whole. People are dumbed down by this sort of trash and our view of what in art and entertainment has really fallen.
It is not the tasteless humor that is insulting, but the presentation of the United States as a nation consisting primarily of bigots and simpletons. The people of this great country are not perfect, I in no way want to imply that and we've had our share of bigotry in this country (like most others), but somethings are just better left unsaid and to keep on bringing it up is just in poor interest of everyone. You have a wound, you let it heal. You don't keep probing it with the hope of it speeding up any sort of healing. As if that wasn't enough, the film also manages to insult the National Anthem. Out of all the silly music out there they just had to pick the one piece that is truly important in this country. Then if that wasn't enough, they present a humorless and insulting piece which poses as the "national anthem of Kazakhstan." In fact, the film goes as far as insulting everyone that appears in it and, as irony would have it, Mr. Cohen insults himself by making it all happen. How can a graduate of any respectable university (Mr. Cohen is a Cambridge Grad.) use his talents, effort, and creativity to produce such worthless slime as this? I don't know, and I am not sure I want to know, but I just hope that this sort thing will stop when people realize how stupid and pointless it is. Then the so called "filmmakers" of these types of films will stop making them when they all of a sudden have no audience.
That will be the day. When the Borats, the Jackasses, and the lot them just realize their stupidity and the people who make them (who undoubtedly have ambition) will focus their efforts of something else. If that is at all possible for them. But, let's be positive, even the town fool deserves a chance to repent his blunders.