Whether you're laughing or choking at Borat's dialogue, some sort of a reaction is coming out of you!
By Matthew Van Allen
Apr. 10, 2007
Director: Larry Charles
Writers: Sacha Baron Cohen and Anthony Hines
Staring: Borat
I think its fairly obvious from all the hype this film is getting that it can't be ignored (just as it is fairly obvious that you're going to find Borat either "Very Nice" or "Not so much").
Prepare your taste buds and keep looking over your shoulder because whether you're laughing or choking at Borat's dialogue, some sort of a reaction is coming out of you! In fact, some sort of reaction is going to be coming out of the person next to you and the person next to them - and so on and so forth.
So with this being said, the film does live up to the hype. My opinion is that whether you like it or not Borat will reshape censorship regulations and the overall way in which motion pictures will be made from here on out. Method acting re-commences, and this is far beyond Jackass, folks!
It's a clever, yet equally dangerous act of re-examining freedom of speech.
Put it this way: if you really want to know the truth behind today's society, "say ahh". It may not necessarily taste pretty, but then again, who ever said that the truth is easy to stomach?
I just want to register my distaste at this process, that we fight it out in a very difficult way amongst ourselves, all kinds of stress coming up, because how the heck are we going to find the kind of cuts to get down to three percent, and then this money shows up out of the blue." -- Brian McHattie, Ward 1 Councillor, on the sudden discovery of $5.2 million in city budget savings after the budget presentation
NewsfeedsISSN: 1715-1554
Transit IS Pedestrian-Friendly (Aug. 25, 2008) - I really hope McMaster University will reconsider its decision to move the B-Line express buses off-campus, particularly given that the justification is to make the campus more pedestrian-friendly
Hamilton Lost 20% of Farmland since 1991 (Aug. 25, 2008) -
The Toronto Star has published an interactive map of lost farmland across southern Ontario.
Hamilton alone lost 20 percent of its farms in the 15 years between 1991 and 2006. Click on a high
Fringe Festival Review: I Am Not Neil Young (Aug. 22, 2008) -
What does it mean to live in the shadow of greatness? How can a talent made famous for his ability to impersonate demonstrate or even discover his own true self?
Frank Wilks is not Neil Y
Fringe Festival Review: New Talent (Aug. 22, 2008) -
The emotionally harrowing tale of a young woman driven by circumstance into the escort business, New Talent is simply a tremendous performance.
Interweaving a personal tragedy with a public
Fringe Festival Review: Lear's Shadow (Aug. 22, 2008) - The tragic Lear's Shadow boils Shakespeare's King Lear down to its essence: not the conflict between an insecure father and his treacherous daughters but rather the interplay between a foo
Fringe Festival Review: Because I Can (Aug. 21, 2008) -
Written by Allison McWood and directed by James Henderson, Because I Can is a screwball comedy that parlays a simple premise into a lively hour of very funny entertainment.
Karina Berschteyn
PRINT EDITION
By earlestanleygardiner
Posted 4/14/2007 1:42:22 AM
I thought that Borat was over rated, & something like the emporers new clothes. People see what they wish to see in it. (The movie we wanted to see was no longer playing, & we saw Borat by default.)
If you were looking for brilliant political insite, biting satire, & edgy wit, then you probably saw just that.
If you had few expectations, you may have seen a slightly more literate rendering of a Jackass movie. If that's what you were looking for, you probably walked out of the theatre happy.
The best moments in this film for me had no pretentions at all. They were just basic foolishness, without any social commentary.
(Permalink)