I just answered a question about what the appeal of "Borat" was, and I noticed that the majority of the respondants, as well as the person who asked the question herself, didn't seem to get that the movie was a satire. Some of them think he's funny; others think he's not so funny. But a lot of them seem to think that Cohen is a racist who hates Jews. How could they have missed that Cohen is a Jew himself and that his character's emulation of racists, bigots, and misogynists is intended as a satire of racists, bigots, and misogynists, NOT of Jews, Arabs, or homosexuals?
I don't know if it's more disturbing that some people hated the movie because it exposed the bigotry and hidden prejudices that certain segments of society openly accept, or that some people took the film at face value and laughed anyway.
Here's the link to the above-mentioned question if you're curious:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApI_aFqZDzjHGLjLRnBii6fsy6IX?qid=20061218083435AAvWXkR
2006-12-18
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