THE MOVIE WAS GREAT. AT TIMES IT WAS VERY CONTROVERSIAL BUT I LOVED HOW BORAT BEING JEWISH COULD HAVE THE WAY TO EXPRESS THE OPPRESSION THAT HIS CULTURE IS GOING THROUGH. I NEVER REALIZED HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME BIASES ABOUT DIFFERENT CULTURES AND HOW THEY ALWAYS HAD TO GET BETWEEN THOSE STEREOTYPES. DURING THIS SAME TIME THAT BORAT WAS VERY FUNNY AND AMUSING. I LOVED THE MOVIE AND I FEEL THAT AS BORAT IS FICTIONAL HE IS PUTTING HIMSELF INTO THE BODY OF A JUDIAST. THIS WILL STIR UP CONFLICTS AMONG OTHER RELIGONS AND MAKE THEM FEEL AS IF THEY ARE BEING TALKED BAD ABOUT. I WILL LAUGH AT ALL SCENES BECAUSE I KNOW WHO I AM AND HOW I FEEL ABOUT MYSELF, I AM MY OWN INDIVIDUAL NO MATTER WHAT. BUT THE MOVIE SHOWS THAT MOST STEREOTYPES ARE NOT REAL, AND ONE SHOULD NOT LOOK AT PEOPLE THAT ARE DIFFERENT IN ANY OTHER WAY BUT EQUAL. I WOULD FASCINATED WITH THE FACT THAT BORAT WAS TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT HIS PEOPLE AND MAKING A JOKE OUT OF WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT BECAUSE HE KNEW THE TRUTH. HE WAS LIVING A JEWISH LIFE IN AN AMERICAN WORLD!

While watching the movie I thought it was the soooo funny. After the movie ended and you said Borat and his religion is Judaism it changed my veiw a bit. I could tell that he was making a point. The point was that all this racial bullshit is a joke, and I agree with him!

If there are so many mixed reactions about this movie i am just going to wait till it comes out on DVD. No sense on paying money for a movie that has had mixed reactions from all the people in the class. I don't even care if i get docked points for blogging so late on the subject.

Borat!

            First of all, I still couldn’t find one good reason why we watched that movie! I didn’t learn one thing out of it nor found it funny. I couldn’t see the point at all. One might thing I am weird, but to be honest, was it fun? Not for me. I don’t have to see his necked bottom! At the beginning of the movie, he kissed his sister and appreciated her job, prostitute. Going to people’s house for dinner and doing some nasty thing come on what is this. I mean even if it was me in that position as the people around him I wouldn’t have much different reaction as them. Such rude person using words that I don’t want to hear showing me pictures of necked people is just ridiculous. I personally wouldn’t want to be around such person. I have one principle, I don’t hung out with people who can’t impact me with positive attitude and help me get to my purpose an dream, the same way round. My point is what can someone learn out of that movie? Are looking for comedy? Aren’t there thousands of comedy movies that can educate you at the same time, or at least don’t have nasty and unnecessary things in them?

            Anyway I am sorry I don’t have sweet thing to say about this movie because I didn’t really like it at all. I hated it to the maximum and when Alice told us that he was Jewish himself, I couldn’t see a point of him making this movie than just getting money out of poor audiences.  

Ok, for any of you who do have 56k internet at their house, you feel my pain...Today is the first day i have been able to get a connection here! anyway...

I thought Borat was rather funny. Not the best movie i've ever seen but definitely one that i feel was worth seeing. In other words i don't feel like PU wasted money for us to go see it. I think it brings out a lot of different things that a lot of people are thinking all of the time. and that is sad. I don't know exactly why they were slamming jewish people so much. I don't know that many people who dislike them. I know several people who use the phrase "thats jewish" which i know is a derrogatory phrase, but i don't think that they use it to be racist. I was slightly disturbed by the whole naked fight scene. never ever in my life would i have expected that. Oh and why the hell do they have a bear? I never really did understand that. I don't think this movie pulled out any of my own feelings toward any race or religeon. Other than maybe christians...i dunno, sometimes i think that some christian people can take it too far. I don't know why anyone would want to be so closed minded that they can't even accept another culture because they don't believe in the same god as you. but yeah. GOod movie. Bad blog post. I think i got it covered...

Umpteen...good word usage. So very very true.

BTFU

Borat! Greatest Movie ever ; okay maybe not that far but it is the best movie I've seen in a while. The comedy makes it not just absolutely hilarious, but the emotional attachment is very strong throughout the movie.
when the movie began and I saw Borat's small home town I felt empathatic towards the village-people (not the band, the people where borat lives) and feel greatful for what I have at home. As the movie goes on there are mixed emotions either towards the people viewing Borat and his partner OR for Borat and his partner themselves. When Borat's partner left him deserted without money ,a plane ticket , or a bear I felt sad for him and wanted to lend a helping hand.
I felt empathatic towards the "audience," especially when they show how ignorant they can be. For example: when the old man at the rodeo tells Borat to shave his mustache because he looks like I terrorist, I find that extremely ignorant. Also when he talks about killing all the homosexual people and thinks the world would be better off without them, I think the world would be better off without people like him.
I think this was such a great movie because Sacha plays such an amazing role in the movie . without an amazing actor,you can't have an amazing movie.

Man I loved this movie but I am so burned out on blogging.

Peace

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I did enjoy this movie a lot!  However, I did not know that the extreme would be shown, such as the whole hotel room thing with him whacking off to Pamela and the naked wrestling.... it was still funny though with some positions they got into except the whole butt hair thing! EWWWW!!! I can't believe how at the rodeo, everyone was agreeing with him to kill the iraqis and all.  That wasn't too cool.

I was real glad that Borat was Jewish.  That is why he made fun of Jews so much.  He was able to!  I guess in a sense, he was trying to get out of innocent people how biased they were against Jews by scrutinizing them himself first.  There were several biases revealed.  Like at the rodeo when people wanted the iraqis killed and all.  Also, when Borat talked about Jews... some said stuff just to do it.  Also the RV scene with the drunk college boys.  Granted they were drunk and probably didn't mean it, they were all like "women are bitches and deserve  to be my slave!"  That wasn't cool by the way...

My biases were different than some people around me.  That scene at the dog shelter when Borat wanted to eat the dog... I knew he was joking but I really didn't find it funny at all.  Maybe it's because I love animals so much I just don't find joking about them being hurt funny.  In Anchor Man when Will Ferrel's dog gets kicked over the bridge and everyone laughs, I don't.  It is sad to have animal humor that way.  It's not funny.  I think that was the main one.  But at the rodeo when he talked about killing the iraqis, I didn't laugh either.  Strangely enough though, I laughed about the killing Jews... it was because he was Jewish though and I know he was kidding. I don't know... overall good movie!

initial reaction--a lot better than i thought...as far comedy...and  omg it was so gross too. but all in all it was an okay movie and would be easier to laugh at had there not been any hidden meanings...  the fact that he is fictionial--made it easier to laugh at some how...as if maybe it was okay because he was jewish, so he wasnt being biased.....he made sure he mocked evryone evenly. as far as rhetorical strategies? pshhh idk i guess the inside jokes and the fact ahtu had to know about different religions to understand some parts was kinda difficult. im not that wellinformed on allhtat religious type stuff but i actaully got most if not all of it. my own biases? well....it was funny material..but at the same time sooo unbelieveably wrong....but i laughed...and had they been making fun of whites, christianity (which they did) or hell republicans for that matter i still would have laughed. b/c i took it as for laughter, not as super serious. well, at least not until alice said i had to. lol.   good movie, an super tons of fun with u guyz at dinner...picture  happy!!! lol. have a great thanxgiving!! xoxo

OH MY GOODNESS, I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH YOU GUYS.  when we watched the first five minutes in class that day, i was like no thank you, i do not want to see this movie.  then, alice basically read us our rights and told us we HAD TO GO, OR ELSE. the whole day i was like, "i don't wanna see this stupid ass movie".  then, when we went to eat, i had such a good time.  i was still a little sceptacle about seeing the movie.   however, when i saw it, i laughed throught basically the whole movie.  it was so good, i am going to see it again with my boyfriend when i get home.  now to your questions.

when Alice told us that he was a Jew and he was playing a fictional character, the movie was not funny to me anymore.  i did not understand why he would say that about his own people.  even if i was acting, i do not think i could ever go against my beliefs the way he did.  i do understand that he was trying to get a poing across, however it confused me.  i thought that the movie was merely for comedy, but i was wrong.  it had a point behind it.

the rhetorical statergies used in Borat were what i like to call "reverse psychology".  i say that because throughout the movie, Borat was protrayed as hating Jews and afraid of Jews and how Jews are such bad people, when i really think he was trying to show that Jews are not like that.  for instance, when he stayed in the Jew's house.  they showed him great hospitality, but they still were afraid. 

i don't quite know exactly what biases are revealed becasue there were so many.  i think that he tried to reveal that some people view Jews as such horrible people, when they really are not.  i think that was one.  and many more. 

i felt kind of bad at the end, when i felt it was only right to laugh at somethings, but when he talked about stuff that i believed in, like Christianity, i felt very offended.  and i know that people that had certain beliefs that i laughed at, that was not nice. 

in all, the movie was great, i understand what he was trying to do. so, i will leave you with this:

"Pamela, i am not attracted to you anymore. NNNOOOOOOOTTTTTTT"-Borat

i was LMFAO when he said that.......

I HOPE EVERY ONE HAS A WONDERFUL AND SAFE BREAK, CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!!!!111

     I kind of have mixed opinions about Borat. My initial reaction was that parts of it were really funny, parts really gross, and parts really offensive. I was really surprised at how racist some Americans can be, like when Borat was going to sing the national anthom, and he was saying all those things about Iraqis, and killing them, and everyone was clapping and cheering.

     I was actually glad that the Borat character was Jewish because somehow that makes him making fun of Jews seem better because obviously, he was not condoning it. I don't think the film really revealed any of my biases, but definitely some of the ways  that I stereotype were revealed. I thought that altogether, it was a well-made film.

  I thought that the movie was really funny.  As far as the guy being Jewish...I can see this in two different ways.  1.) he is Jewish and doesn't like being so, or 2.) he is trying to expose biases against Jewish people as well as many other...religions and lifestyles.  Either way, by pretending to be from another country, he got people to open up and express how they really felt.  He used some pretty cool strategies to make this film and these strategies worked effectively.

  mk..for what biases were revealed, here it goes....Texan's hate homosexuals, college guys are douchbags and sexists, colored women are prostitutes, colored men are in gangs, "third world" children are given guns, christians are insane (with the speaking in toungues and such), pamela anderson is plastic..oh wait that one is true, people in new york are assholes and are genereally afraid of meeting new people, old guys have good jokes.....NOT, and I'm sure there are others but thats good enough for now.

  There were a few times I didn't laugh because either what he did/said wasn't funny to me, or I couldn't believe what he was doing.  I don't think it revealed any of my biases.  While I'm sure I probably have some...I don't know what they are and I try not to be bias towards others.