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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Actors
| Name | Role | Gender | Race | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat Sagdiyev | Male | White | |
Ken Davitian | Azamat Bagatov | Male | White | |
Luenell | Luenell | Female | Black | |
Pamela Anderson | Pamela Anderson | Female | White | |
Bob Barr | Bob Barr | Male | White | |
Alan Keyes | Alan Keyes | Other | Black |
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