About everyone I know have either heard or seen the movie Borat. To me, aside from the racism, was the most hilarious movie I've ever seen. Though many people thought it was a good movie, a good amount of people didn't. For people who have seen the movie, they know that this movie is extremely racist to different religion and races. However; I usually think it in another way. Apart from this is a movie, take a foreigner from a county in a far away land where the word civilized doesn't mean a thing. If this person was to arrive in a land where the economy is booming, society is excellent, and the land is civilized obviously this foreigner would not adjust so quickly. In this time, racism in the civilized land is obviously unacceptable but maybe to the foreigner, all he knows is that the racism is right. He may not even think it is a problem. Not that he doesn't think it's unacceptable or rude but he doesn't understand.
Some critics call this movie a shame on Kazakhstan. It could be, I wouldn't know because I'm not from there and I have no right to say anything. This also leads to my next point. Though the racism used is targeted on specific people and is offensive, people to try and take it in. Yes racism is bad and horrible and it have caused suffering to many people throughout history but no matter what we do, racism will continue to stay and affect people. Now through the movie Borat we see a foreigner release racism. Using my above statement on foreigners, this can be understandable. I often think there are 2 types of racism. Racism that is meant and racism that is not meant. Racism that is meant, I think, is racism that is released through the racists hard and guts to offend someone. Racism that is not meant, is racism used in joke where the racist is not meaning to offend anyone in any horrible way. I think Borat is a movie that uses racism in a not meant way. I hope everyone else does to.
To end this off, I would like to say I hope what I have written here doesn't offend anyone but to only understand my opinion. For I hope that everyone enjoyed the movie and laughed but didn't take the racism that personal.
