tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086522799678977282.post3835997863106976608..comments2023-12-26T08:22:44.107-05:00Comments on The Second Awakening: Baron Cohen: Glorious Privileges For Amusement Of ElitesC. L. Minouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249398357159535411noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086522799678977282.post-2503044082975787422009-07-14T14:29:25.062-04:002009-07-14T14:29:25.062-04:00P.S. That faux-Cyrillic spelling almost drove me i...P.S. That faux-Cyrillic spelling almost drove me into a dark abyss of madness.Spatulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341100471594319746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086522799678977282.post-89318635246201701782009-07-14T14:28:57.766-04:002009-07-14T14:28:57.766-04:00I hated Borat, because in the course of satirizing...I hated Borat, because in the course of satirizing bigotry, it happily perpetuated a ton of it. I remember an especially painful wave of bile when Borat sits in some women's group meeting or something *repressed memories* and basically the entire scene makes fun of the women with their stupid feminism. The joke is not on sexist Borat but on the women. And that went on and on through the whole film, and don't even get me started on the black woman character he ends up marrying.<br /><br />So, yeah, his stuff is not so much attacking all this crap as a chance to get the sexist, racist assholes in the audience to laugh at sexist and racist jokes.Spatulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341100471594319746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086522799678977282.post-58369560616849014992009-07-10T18:40:01.373-04:002009-07-10T18:40:01.373-04:00Eek, forgot to close my paragraph:
*suffering).*Eek, forgot to close my paragraph:<br /><br />*suffering).*Samiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11434039760505116696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086522799678977282.post-11940683498311624582009-07-10T18:39:13.289-04:002009-07-10T18:39:13.289-04:00I didn't get the umlaut either.
I have to adm...I didn't get the umlaut either.<br /><br />I have to admit there's one part on the commercials which always makes me laugh. Bruno says "Dolce and Gabbana, HELLO!" And these two army dudes just look at him and go, "HELLO?!"<br /><br />It's just...a very Southern moment somehow.<br /><br />But yeah, I'm not seeing the "genius" in a heterosexual man playing a stereotypical gay man for laughs-- again. Is the novelty supposed to be his accent? I don't get it. I mean, honestly, a lot of the "gags" are just old as hell. Hasn't Zoolander covered this ground already?<br /><br />Movies like this are so over the top that people's fears and hatreds just come out to play uninhibited. It's like a disguise. If someone gets in your face, you can always turn around and say you're laughing at the "ignorant" people Sascha Baron Cohen is harassing. But what are we really laughing at? "Gay men do this." Eh.<br /><br />It's like how people who enjoy watching violence against women will frequently watch crime shows (most of which tend to be written under a really creepy version of the Male Gaze that eroticizes female suffering. Ostensibly we're to believe that viewers identify with the detectives solving the case. I call bullshit. It's another disguise. We want to indulge ugly parts of ourselves, and certain types of media exist to alleviate the guilt. <br /><br />Just think...that flick cost money to make. :/ People got PAID to produce that.Samiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11434039760505116696noreply@blogger.com