Borat

Yes, yes, a particularly controversial

film…But have any of you seen it? What did you think? Is everyone making an unecessary fuss, or should the film

be banned?

I haven’t seen it, but I heard

my friends say it is the funniest movie they have ever seen.

My dad said that it

was funnier than Team America: World Police. Until I see the film for myself (when I

get a little older), I will just have to take his word for it. :stuck_out_tongue:

He’s right, it’s funnier than Team America, and that’s saying something. :laughing:

lizardgirl - You’ve seen it

too, huh? Man, I wanna see Team America so bad – all I saw was the part where the

guy throws up (it was on tv – heh)…but I was still laughing so hard. :unamused:

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Borat is rated ‘R’, right? If it is, then I can

legally see it, as I am seventeen. However, I believe that I should probably wait a few more years…just in

case. I already saw the last half of the second Kill Bill, and that was almost more

than I could handle – heh.

I’m not allowed to see R-rated movies as long as I’m a

student at Liberty - it’s in the code of conduct - but I won’t ever see “Borat.” It just seems

grossly distasteful.

KE- Is that a catholic schoool ?

Well , anyway , I can’t see it since it’s

Rated-R . I’ve just been aloud to watch PG-13 , and that’s a good enough privilege .

I don’t think I’ll ever want to see it, either. It crossed my mind very

briefly, but then I read a review, and while others may find watching people in uncomfortable situations

hilarious, I don’t find any humor in it at all, especially if I know that it’s completely genuine; it just

makes me feel uncomfortable, too. :confused:

GLP:

Nope, Liberty is kind of a non-denominational school founded by and affiliated with a Southern Baptist church.

It’s Southern Baptist in teaching and doctrine, but it’s non-denominational in that you don’t have to be

Baptist to go there, which is good, because I’m not.

Well, here, Borat was a fifteen, so I could see it. It IS very shocking at points, as every

part that is funny is also incredibly awkward. It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to scream in anxiety! But

no, it’s definitely not for those who are sensitive to offensive situations.

The main reason I saw it was

simply because when it was first released, I thought that it was disgusting, pointless, and downright racist, but

upon reading that the actor who plays Borat is actually Jewish, it suddenly all made sense. He’s not making fun

of Jewish people- he’s making fun of how ignorant the more economically developed countries are. Throughout the

film, Borat makes many ridiculous claims as to how people in Khasakstan act, for example, according to Borat,

they treat their women as slaves. This isn’t actually true, but the fact that some people in the Western world

believe this of other LED countries is the whole reason why Sasha Baron, I think his name is, created the film in

the first place.