” BORAT “…Film Review

PEDRO’S WORLD OF CINEMA

” BORAT ”

….kahazakistan 2006

here at PWOC we like to pride ourselves on supporting foreign films
but sadly this documentary left me very cold.essentially a “fish-out-of -water” narrative filmed in cinema-veritie,it is let down by its stumbling narrator…borat is from a central asian country,formerly of the soviet empire who travels to america in search of cultural ideas to modernise his country…

so far so good+his charming village seems very rustic+homely,but the shaky production values can not be forgiven,and so many scenes just end with non-resolutions,people actually run away…as a documentary it sadly sheds little light on america, turning into a road movie that even misses traveling through montana…

a documentary should be all about the subject,that is americans+how they live,but this falls down by being too much about the narrator+his awkward,gross manner…”put your manners back in” as that glorious star of movie-films tom cruise would say…

sadly this is no valiant effort by a plucky 3rd world country,think iranian films of last decade,it sadly is one of the less illuminating documentaries in cinema history,it even shows obese,fat people…wrestling….

* outta 5,sorry….

what do you think?