Borat, in all its fullness

To me he is definitely unfunny, too. But I also think that he may be a professional journalist, reporter, columnist, interviewer - yet not a professional man of art, not a professional movie creator.

I also think that it's unprofessional not to make things look real in the least. His trademark Yakshemash greeting is obviously Polish "Jak sie masz?" (How are you doing?), the actress is obviously Slavic, the filmed locations are settled by gypsies in the European country of Romania, there's nothing even remotely resembling the Turkic Asian nation of Kazakhstan. If Monty Python or Benny Hill or whoever else parodied the cultures they at least tried to use the stereotypical view of the nation. Here, unsurprisingly, nobody knows anything about Kazakhstan. Perhaps the authors of the movie could do some few-clicks research on the Net to find out something really domestic to real Kazakhstan. Because, well, gypsies are not your usual Kazakh people. The Kazakhs are Asian-looking, Japanese-alike-looking, if you like. Also, there's a high percentage of Slavs in Kazakhstan, from the Soviet and Russian Empire times. Kazakhs, for all I know, never had ANY relations, any concerns about Jews, at all! Quite like Chinese or Japanese. Their paths simply never crossed. Instead, the movie makes an Arabic nation out of people living next to China... Plus to that, Kazakhstan is going to change its alphabet from the Soviet times' Cyrillic one to the Latin one, the creators of the movie do not even know it, it seems...

The movie portrays very vague stereotypes, mixing a lot of absolutely different terms in one pot. I understand that the movie probably laughs at the American... well, at the American. But it rather looks like a TV comedy show, or a journalist work. I feel no art in it, at all. It's not a surrealism, nor a half-real style of art, it's quite series of TV interviews with interludes, intersections, TV anti-ads (against Trump team). As a kind of journalism meets pranking, it sure looks professionally made. Where's the art?

As the sort of PS, here are two famous Kazakhs, both famous Russian comedians. Nobody of them have any possible concerns about Jews, as Jews and Chinese never met in the whole human history, at all:

I may be too strict on this, but I think that the parody should always reflect bits of truth. Borat or his screenwriters found that there's a country ending in -stan and that its language uses Cyrillic script. That was practically all they have found on the topic. If it's -stan (so they supposed) it must be like Afghanistan or Pakistan - which implies poor ordinary Arabs hating Jews. Fine, but totally incorrect. Cyrillic script as used in Kazakh language has several different letters not found in Russian language. Cyrillic fake Kazakh in the movie massively uses Russian words and plain Russian alphabet. So, it's then becoming a kind of satire at the whole post-Soviet space... Then it fails - at least for us. Because we, the inhabitants of post-Soviet space, see numerous mistakes in depicting our reality, and do not then see any constructive paradigm behind the movie's depiction of Americans. Americans... well, they are like Russians - they think their country is the Third Rome (Russians think the same about Russia, btw), so why bother with learning of what's really what in the rest of the world. And so? What is constructive in showing the ignorance of Americans? The victims got angry, the comedian made fun - what's constructive in the whole mess?