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

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Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.0
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan poster

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.


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Bias Dimensions

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

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

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Apple TV logoApple TV
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Detailed Bias Analysis

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Primary

The film's central thesis explicitly promotes a critique of pervasive prejudice, including racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and xenophobia, by satirizing their manifestations in American society. Its primary objective is to expose and challenge these societal ills, aligning strongly with progressive ideological concerns.

The movie features a diverse array of real individuals Borat interacts with, though its main fictional characters do not involve explicit race or gender swaps of traditional roles. The narrative, however, strongly and explicitly critiques traditional American societal norms and identities by exposing prejudices and biases through satirical interactions.

Secondary

The film uses its protagonist's extreme homophobia and the depiction of harmful stereotypes as a primary source of comedic shock value. While the intent may be satirical to expose bigotry, the direct portrayal of ridicule and degradation of queer identity, without an internal narrative counterbalance, results in a problematic net impact.

The film includes a brief, stereotypical depiction of a transvestite prostitute, primarily serving as an object for Borat's transphobic reactions and disgust. While intended to satirize bigotry, the portrayal itself lacks nuance or counter-critique, resulting in a net negative impact for transsexual themes.

The film satirizes certain aspects of American evangelical Christianity, portraying some adherents as prejudiced, easily manipulated, or hypocritical. While not a blanket condemnation, the narrative highlights problematic behaviors and beliefs within these interactions without a strong counterbalancing positive portrayal of the faith itself.

The film satirizes anti-Muslim prejudice by having Borat express bigoted views that are sometimes echoed by others, but the narrative unequivocally condemns such bigotry rather than the religion itself.

Borat's extreme antisemitism is consistently presented as ignorant and reprehensible, with the narrative clearly condemning his bigotry and positioning the audience to sympathize with Jewish individuals.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Borat is an original character created for the film's mockumentary style, not an adaptation of a pre-existing character with a different established gender. The film does not feature any characters whose canonical or historical gender was altered.

Borat features original characters created for the film and its preceding TV show, not adaptations of pre-existing characters with established racial identities from other source material. Therefore, no race swaps occurred.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.4
The Movie Database logo
6.8

Critic Ratings

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9.0
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8.9

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