"Borat" directed by Larry Charles [review]
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2006
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Prescott, Nicholas Adrian
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Abstract
Sacha Baron Cohen is a man who’s used to offending people. For years now the
gifted British comic has, in his hugely successful TV shows, created and masqueraded
as a series of idiotic and hilarious caricature figures, most famously the sexist
homeboy Ali G and the buffoonish TV host Borat Sagdiyev. Through these creations,
Cohen has satirised not just the broad cultural types he’s playing with, but the gamut
of reactions that they generate in others, as well. It’s a fascinating kind of comedy,
predicated upon the comic’s cunning ability to catch his audience(s) entirely offguard.
Cohen seems to be a master at it, and with this new film version of Borat he
has brought his extraordinarily confronting comic gift to the big screen.
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Radio, ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Review, Film, Movie, Nick Prescott
Citation
Prescott, Nick 2006. Review of "Borat", directed by Larry Charles. 891 ABC Adelaide website.