![]() ![]() Trump’s supporters, like Borat’s, may be wondering if the thrill is gone.īorat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is on Amazon Prime Video from 23 October.Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Borat Sagdiyev in his latest film “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Credit: Star Tribune via TNS Or perhaps it is more that a Democratic victory will be down to exhaustion, and the joke overstaying its welcome. Maybe Borat and Tutar’s extraordinary finale in the hotel suite really will help swing it for Joe Biden. The film concludes on a note of seriousness, telling the public to vote. Trump was the custard pie in the face of received wisdom and authority: an unthinkable public humiliation for the establishment, but Borat had already lowered the thinkability-threshhold. It is almost compulsory now to say that Trump has rendered satire futile, but perhaps it is truer to say that Borat was a fake-news pioneer of trolling and outrageousness, and Trump’s electoral success was basically a trolling of the Democrats and the progressives. ![]() It’s like a Stanford prison experiment that doesn’t prove quite as much as it thinks it does.īorat is now encountering America in the age of Donald Trump, of course, and some of the film’s best moments come when it is exposing complacency and credulity on the subject of Covid-19. Often, even when they don’t, they have a need not to embarrass poor Borat. ![]() At some level, some victims sort-of do get it and go along with it. About $500, the man smirks, and is coldly rebuked by his own daughter. Borat earnestly asks one of the snowy-haired, be-tuxed patriarchs how much he thinks Tutar is worth. Photograph: Amazon Studiosīut at this ball, almost accidentally, the film reveals something about the attitudes of the people it is satirising. There are some gobsmackingly horrible moments, especially at something called the Macon debutante ball in Georgia, enjoyed by the cream of southern society, where there is a traditional father-daughter dance. So Borat and Tutar blunder around the US, with the father transporting the daughter around in a horsebox that he tows behind his car, getting advice on how Tutar can be an aspirational young woman. There is a clever mock-Disney Beauty-and-the-Beast-type animation about Melania that Tutar obsessively watches. ![]() Tutar, played by the 24-year-old Bulgarian actor Maria Bakalova, is a feral figure at first, content to be kept like an animal, but with dreams of becoming a conjugal success story in the US like her heroine, the Slovenian Melania. To get around the fact that everyone now recognises Borat, the idea is that he will mostly be in disguise and a lot of the pranks are effectively carried out by Tutar, whom he has brought along as a sexual gift to a senior government politician – a diplomatic gesture that he hopes will restore his homeland’s alpha male reputation in America’s eyes. ![]()
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