MOVIE REVIEW
& Borat is an 'offensively' good time
by KEN BARTOLOTTA Reporter

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as Kazakhstan reporter Borat, who offends everyone equally in the comedy.

"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" is more or less a practical joke on our entire country.

You can look at the film as a political satire, an avant garde exposé on foreign relations and mankind's never-ending tendency to hate or fear that which he doesn't understand.

However, at its very essence it doesn't really matter if this was British prankster Sacha Baron Cohen's intentions when he opted to bring this character from his cult hit "Da Ali Gi Show" to the big screen.

"Borat" is quite simply the funniest film of the year because it insults everything and everyone and never once considers the consequences of those actions.

It's a mocumentary that focuses on Kazakhstan reporter Borat who travels through this great land of ours weaving a web of intolerance on almost every level imaginable, from racial ignorance to misogamy to the most basic forms of classic potty humor.

But while Borat's feelings on women, Jews and Pamela Anderson can make the viewer cringe and laugh at the same time, it's the faults that this oddly likable "foreigner" exposes within ourselves that is perhaps the most amusing part of this movie.

Maybe what is most disturbing and strangely amusing about this movie isn't Borat himself, but the amount of individuals he encounters that actually agree with his outdated, uneducated point of view.

If even half of this movie is true, we probably shouldn't laugh, but a comedy this raw and daring is so rare in modern-day cinema that all of it should be ingested with a certain grain of salt.