[Quick Summary: To bribe the US, Borat is sent to deliver his daughter as a tribute to Vice President Mike Pence.]
Satire (n.): The use of irony, ridicule, sarcasm, etc. exposes, denounces, derides vice or folly.
The trick with satire is that it has to be funny. Otherwise, it's a lecture.
Or in this case, the point gets lost in the extremely crass behavior. Which is probably the point.
But I didn't laugh and I didn't enjoy reading it. (But to be fair, I'm probably not the audience for this either.)
There was one heartfelt light bulb moment I did like. Tutar, Borat's daughter, is literally wearing blinders when she learns her father (and country) had been lying to her:
INT./EXT. BABYSITTER'S CAR/ STREET - MOMENTS LATER
The babysitter is driving. Tutar, wearing her BLINDERS, is freaking out.
TUTAR: What are you doing?
BABYSITTER: We're driving. Women can drive.
Tutar begins to cry.
BABYSITTER (CONT'D): Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry. It's okay.
TUTAR: You can't drive, you can't drive, you can't drive!
BABYSITTER: I can drive! I can!
TUTAR: It's impossible for woman to drive!
BABYSITTER: Nope! Nope! No!
TUTAR: You are a man! Dressed like a woman!
BABYSITTER: No, no!
TUTAR (screaming): Help me!!! It's a woman driving the car!!!
WHAT I'VE LEARNED: Does this irony land better because of the extreme preceding behavior? I don't think so. So is the extreme-ness necessary? Or funnier?
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)
by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Nina Pedrad
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