I'm referring to this scene:
Borat: [indicates women beside him] In my country, they would go crazy for these two.
[points to minister's wife]
Borat: This one... not so much...
I've never been accused of having a temper, but that scene made me angry.
To say that to someone as a joke...unforgivable.
I suggest you get a sense of humor. Really. It's a comedy movie.
shareOP is right. SBC is funny as hell but he definitely has a sharp misanthropic streak.
It should be against the law to use "LOL" unless you really did LOL!
To the OP; Would you be as offended if the sexes were reversed? I'm willing to bet money you wouldn't be at all. In fairness, it is far more socially acceptable to rib men about their looks than women, but still.
shareYes men have it so hard! Honestly it sounds to me the OP was offended by someone insulting someone else's appearance, which has nothing to do with genders. But you don't need any facts to make your claim of sexism huh?
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Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.
Most of the movie had this kind of undertone to it where Borat was offensive, but not even in a funny, wink-and-a-nod kind of way. I know he was playing a clueless Kazakhi tourist, but when the people who were made fun of realize Borat was an act, that's long after the sting of the insult has settled and most of the damage is already done.
The Kazakhi tourist angle doesn't hold water after a while and this movie lost its charm with me pretty early on as well, although I did finish watching to the end. Okay, so Sacha Baron Cohen puts on a character of an ignorant Kazakhi tourist and basically gets a free pass for any offensive thing he does because he doesn't know better (when in reality the actor does, but he used REAL people in REAL situations to display this). This was a shady way to shoot a film, and a cowardly display by Baron Cohen.
Did it hurt your feelings? People have been calling each other ugly for millennia, maybe it's time to grow a thicker skin OP.
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Even more damaging to the members of the dinner party was the contrast between Borat bringing a bag of excrement to their table and receiving impromptu (and incredibly patient) toilet training, and Borat bringing a guest of the wrong sort to the same table and receiving what appeared to be an intolerant and angry ejection.
Given what was surely the negative, cumulative effect of Borat's incessant and boorish transgressions on the egalitarian sensibilities of the dinner party members (an effect to which I had become largely inured by this point in the film) the implication of racism/classism offered by this contrast felt more than a little unfair to me.
Having said that, I should note that I alternately laughed and cringed to the very end of the movie!
That was one of the best moments of the movie! :)
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