Borat: Cultural LearningsAamerica for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Hoo boy.... this is one of those movies that I personally can't judge whether I really enjoyed it or not. Just because some parts were *painful*. Safiyya, Arinah, David and I watched it on the day it came out a few weeks ago. The theatre was so packed, we couldn't all sit together. The movie itself was so-so for me. The parts I foiund funny were *really* funny, but some of it was just embarrassing to watch. In a way, I'm glad that this movie is very probably never going to air on Malaysian soil. I've seen enough public nudity in my life compared to some of my compatriots, and I was still horrified by the male nudity in this film. Very un-sexy, which was why it was so funny, but still... seeing a naked fat guy sit on Borat's face was enough to make me puke my dinner when I got back home. I still wanna hurl if I think too much about the movie.

In some weird, freakish way, it really brings to light some of the prejudices and stereotype that is prevalent in American society today. And I also think, if you substitute different races and religions portrayed in the movie, those kind of prejudices are prevalent in *any* country where you have people of different living together. So the movie has some goiod message. Except the way the message was packaged, it might be lost on people.

Male nudity = bad, bad images.