Controversial, unfunny but amazingly issues driven black comedy

Rating: 6/10 (9 November 2006)

spoilers maybe.
The narrative.
Shot from a biography perspective, the Ali G actor Cohen travels to America to film his life as an American. The film definitely fulfils the black comedy genre with many racist, gay, sexist and nationality jokes, prompting controversy into current society issues. It is slow moving with many repetitive jokes. Short scenes are used to make it simplistic but it's perhaps too basic and needed a bit more.
The direction is interesting with many captivating shots of the travelling Borat.
It is poorly constructed unfortunately and if it had more realistic context and laughable jokes it would have been outstanding because the preaching on different issues was outstanding. The 'dream' of Borat's is definitely superficial and never realistic at all, especially the ending. The jokes are repetitive and poor, mainly jokes against Americans and Kazakhstan. Physical humour is often encoded but is often more disgusting than funny.
Culture.
The film is definitely engaging with many issues about different cultures, genders and religions encoded to emphasise society as it currently is.
Borat also presents an in-depth view of what, quite possibly, how Kazakhstan residents act and if so, is presenting them in a negative light, bar the ending maybe, making them appear slightly mad. The film is controversial for the way it represent Kazakhstan, as a poor Country but has more love values to their names. They are juxtaposed with American citizens and lives. The part on the train is especially interesting, showing Americans as exceptionally rude people. Is the film trying to preach, to make them stop being cruel to people with different social values? It certainly appears it throughout as Borat meets new people and present his take on life and acts in a way that is normal to him, e.g. kissing strangers.
I believe the film is tying to establish that there is currently something wrong in America, why? It appears to be the way society currently appears. By encoding a stranger into the country allows a view of what other nationalities will think of the country.
i give it such a low mark for the horrid humour mainly. the acting too is poor. context wise.. possibly realistic but i didn't see it, especially the ending.
watch it if...you like lame jokes with no meaning at the end of the day, issues surrounding different religions, cultures etc