Firstly, I would like to sincerely thank the two guys sitting 4 rows in front of us, who decided to get into a fistfight just before the show opened. You are a testament to the sort of fine upstanding people that walk the streets of our city these days. Keep up the good work!
Okay...so Bruno. You've seen Borat. This is not Borat. This is Bruno. Got it? Bruno. Different character. He's gay. As in homosexual. So, you're going to see a lot of references to this. Over and over again.
Why did I just sound really stupid in my last paragraph? Because, that's how you have to talk to people these days. Like they're dumb. Like they don't understand. Please, words with less with two syllables, please. This movie is like Borat, very graphic, pushing the edge of absurdity (actually, jumping off the edge of absurdity), and very much a commentary on our society. In this case, our uncomfortable co-existence with gay people. Now, I am not gay (contrary to what you may have read on the bathroom stall walls), but I also live and let live, and the fact that there are gay people out there now, having sex probably, doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that some people can't accept these people. Like the audience members who got up and left the movie before it ended. What did you think this movie was about? Hugs and kisses, and teddy bears? Did you not see Borat? Do you not know who Sacha Baron Cohen is? It just proved the point of the movie, which is people are so narrow-minded, they can't think beyond their tiny little realities. They don't realize there's a big world, with different people, with different tastes and perspectives. It's all about what I want, and that's all that mattes. Screw you, Jack (or Bruno).
This movie is just frigging hilarious to boot. Cohen has mastered the ability to keep pushing people, getting more and more ridiculous, while people prove again and again completely incapable of fathoming the hilarity of the situation. Their reactions are as funny as his ludicrous questions and actions; it shows you how utterly insane the world is by large, how one different man can come in and expose just how inane we all are. That is the genius of Sacha Baron Cohen. We laugh at his characters, but in essence, we're laughing at the reactions of the people, and the people are us. We're laughing at our own stupidity.
That's the greatest joke of them all.
Rating: 4 out 5 stars.
I bid thee a fond goodnight
- Stephenstein
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