COMMENT ON BORATBY Tijana Trkulja
Borat is the movie that certainly shook an entire auditorium with it’s, to some point, avant-garde scenes. This movie shows all the absurdities in cultural differences, but also refers to some smaller and taboo topics. Approximately an hour and a half of scenes that shock you, make you laugh, and what is the most important- make you think.
What is admirable about this film is that it is showing very delicate things on a funny way, and this is the part which makes you laugh, but when you actually realize that the joke is true, and that those things are really happening in the world- it makes you angry and disgusted. An example for such a scene is when he introduces his sister and kisses her.
Some of the touchy topics that Borat is pointing out are homosexuality, incest, women rights… This was maybe his way to show the importance of those subjects, but also to break the borders of politeness in media. The hotel scene is certainly something that socked everyone who watched the movie (with possible exceptions). However, there is a feeling that he actually wanted us to ask ourselves, why do we feel disgusted by it, and not by two beautiful, young, hetero people having sex on TV screen? This has to do with what media got us used on. Everything that is passing the limits of everyday TV-program or commercial movies is making us feel uncomfortable, with no reason.
Borat showed us that it is pointless to set your eyes to see only nice and pleasant things on the TV, we have to face our reality with all what it is. If there is incest and homosexuality and women/cultural discrimination in our present, and there certainly is, than why to lie to ourselves through the media by presenting only nice and ‘pure’ things to the people?
