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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Overview

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.


Starring Cast


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive

Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Negative
Christianity: Negative
Judaism: Positive

Viewer Rating
8.0

Overview

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Apple TV logoApple TV
Google Play logoGoogle Play
Fandango
Powered byJustWatch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The film's central thesis is an explicit satirical critique of American prejudices, including racism, antisemitism, sexism, and homophobia, aligning it with progressive ideology.

Borat employs a satirical narrative to explicitly critique various forms of prejudice, including racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and homophobia, by having its protagonist embody and expose these views. While the casting does not involve explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles, the film's core purpose is to highlight and challenge societal intolerance.

Secondary

The film extensively uses homophobic language, slurs, and stereotypes through its protagonist, Borat, as a tool for satire. While the intent is to expose and mock prejudice, the depiction itself is problematic, lacking any positive or affirming LGBTQ+ representation to counterbalance the pervasive negative content. The net impact is primarily negative due to the constant presence of derogatory portrayals.

The film satirizes and exposes the hypocrisy, prejudice, and absurd beliefs of various Christian individuals and groups Borat encounters, without offering significant counterbalancing positive portrayals. The narrative highlights problematic aspects within these contexts.

The film uses Borat's extreme anti-Semitism to expose and ridicule bigotry, positioning the audience to sympathize with the Jewish characters who are portrayed as normal and victimized by prejudice. The narrative clearly condemns anti-Semitism.

The film does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on Borat's interactions with various American individuals and subcultures, without engaging with transsexual identity or related issues. Therefore, there is no depiction to evaluate.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Borat features original characters created for the film and its preceding show, rather than adapting existing source material or historical figures. Therefore, no characters established as one gender were portrayed as a different gender.

The film features original characters like Borat and Azamat, whose races are established within the film's narrative. There are no pre-existing characters from source material or history whose race was changed for this adaptation.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.4
The Movie Database logo
6.8

Critic Ratings

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9.0
Metacritic logo
8.9

Who Made This

Actors

NameRoleGenderRaceNationality
Sacha Baron Cohen
Borat SagdiyevMaleWhite United Kingdom
Ken Davitian
Azamat BagatovMaleWhite United States
Luenell
LuenellFemaleBlack United States
Pamela Anderson
Pamela AndersonFemaleWhite Canada
Bob Barr
Bob BarrMaleWhite United States
Alan Keyes
Alan KeyesOtherBlack United States

Actor Breakdown

Gender

Male
Female
50%
50%

Race

White
67%
Black
33%

Nationalities

United Kingdom
17%
United States
67%
Canada
17%

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