watched that new borat movie, havent seen the first one
what the fuck is wawaweewa? it just makes borat sound like a little
also half the soundtrack is a serbian band (boban markovic orkestra) which seems really lazy to me, but so does harrassing a holocaust victim after she feeds you so i dont think this movie is for people like me.
one part of me says they shoulda waited til rudy takes his dick out so people cant argue about this man whos getting ready to fuck a woman he thinks is underage is touching himself or not. like hes about to fuck the girl and it sucks that we now have this grey area that everyone is arguing but another part of me is like fuck that they set this woman up to get raped by rudy guiliani she doesnt have to also see his horrid cock. i really dont buy the arguement that he was scared for her because he put her in that situation in the first place. im glad he got his ghoulishness on camera, i guess
like the parts where he got people who were horrible to be horrible was funny but there was too much harassing decent people and then just being racist WITH racists which like, who is this serving
OH ALSO THE ONLY TIME THEY BLURRED OUT PEOPLES FACES WAS WHEN THEY CAUGHT SOMEONE SIEG HELING WHICH SEEMS LIKE THE MOST IMPORTANT TIME TO SHOW A PERSONS FACE so that was just plain cowardice
yeah i wonder this a lot about all the stuff he does. like he expects that everyone who sees his movies is going to be âin on it,â but then assumes that everyone he interviews is not, when it seems kind of like⌠it might be the same people?
this is also why I canât watch nathan for you (which triggers this revulsion in me far more than anything else) and why I feel like I have a stick up my ass when weird twitter people talk about how much they love tim heidecker.
I think ⌠parts of my childhood make it very difficult for me to comfortably assume that people are in on a joke. unfortunately despite this weird overactive empathy, I personally only enjoy receiving social commentary from these same presumptuous chucklefucks, Iâm just reflexively uncomfortable with them being inflicted on other people, which is probably pretty high on the long list of hangups that keep me at armâs length from many of the things I intuitively like. oh well!
canât watch the man on the street segments on eric andre or wonder showzen or an episode of the controversial television series Candid Camera because i just hate seeing people be bothered for a gag it revulses me
i mean i hate listening to live episodes of podcasts though so my anxiety level regarding audience participation is probably just higher than a normal human
i feel like i am fine with âa performanceâ i can watch david blaine or some weirdo do a little crowd work.
weirdly i have no problem with All Gas No Brakes even though itâs in a similar realm to a lot of the stuff i am talking about i think itâs just because he doesnât seem to be a poker/prodder and isnât playing a game. feels like the human weirdness is more real because he presents himself as a weird blank slate/chameleon
i havenât seen the new Borat, but i guess the idea of âwho it servesâ would be âliberals during the Bush years.â like the premise is that Boratâs racism and prejudice makes others more at ease with expressing their own, which was a novel idea during an era where people may have actually felt shame or some amount of fear in sharing their horrible views publicly, or that those views would have been shocking to liberal audiences who thought racism was over after the civil rights movement.
this, coupled with Cohenâs own kind of shitlib behavior (apparently in the first film he paid the town he pretends is Kazakstahn like under $100), means that i was really surprised to see this sequel come out.
i wanted to watch it to see what a Borat movie looks like in 2020, but uhâŚi guess itâs not great.
definitely the best audience response iâve ever seen at a movie was when i went to go see âEnter the Void.â
after getting through the whole movie, we finally arrive at the ending, wherein the main character is reborn as his sisterâs baby after he has been shot to death while âhigh on DMTâ, and all of a sudden, this woman in the back says, out loud âare you fucking serious?â like, as the revelation of what we are watching is happening.
whole theater burst into laughter; saved the whole movie-watching experience for me.
The thing I hate about Borat most is that itâs just smearing eastern european countries as interchangeable, backwards, patriarchal, and antisemitic and it seems like the guy just doubles down on that in the new movie.
Interestingly, he actually broke character and told her it was all a bit before the scene so it was one of the few instances of him not harassing someone