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Many critics reviews would go and keep comparing Sasha Baron Cohen’s latest movie with the previews one, Borat. Of course there are similarities between both pieces, they were both obviously done by the same man, similar structures formed of many hilarious sketches that many said would be more appropriate for youtube and that this is not a real movie. In art there is no “real movie” concept, either you belong to one type of films or you don’t, and this the real point, critics may not have enough drawers to classify some films. Bruno is an amazingly hilarious piece of 7th art. It is always surprising, striking and creative. Sometimes this comes in the form of textual jokes such as when Bruno is asking two stone-heads from a PR company what topics are up today in order to attract camera time, the girls mention Darfur and Bruno asks what’s next Darfur, what’s Darfive?
Sasha got a real pair to get into a ultimate fight championship kind of ring and face a red neck public while french kissing his partner in the film; or when Bruno gets into ultra orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood and had to scape in order not to be beaten up by some angry people. In some other occasion he met what seemed to be a Al Akhsa Bridage Martirs member and asked him who could kidnap him. Later on Sasha would get sued by the target of this interview, some kind of non profit organization worker, and would get real life threats by the real terrorist organization, this worker was supposed to belong to.
As I see it, Sasha targets in his film, first and foremost, the gay community, not leaving any stereotype in place. All of us know most gays are not that provocative, wearing huge platforms and being so effeminate. The second target would be, again, homophobic, making it almost anyone feeling that way, leftists and right wingers, westerns and easterners, Catholics and Jews alike.
I couldn’t help myself of not thinking of Zoolander and of Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends. The first one also focuses on a comedy around the figure of a well known gay hair stylist and the second one, around a weird voyage into the real far left behind America, similar to the one to which the two gay “curators” belong to.
About the rated issue of this movie, again we are facing the same dilemma of rating a movie filled with violence, anti ethical behavior, materialism, those of the kind that can take someone life’s into a highway to hell, if this exist. And in the other part of the balance we have a not more than funny 2 sequences of a guy’s penis dancing, I don’t think anyone could see his libido aroused from these two sequences, even homosexuals. Well we well know the hypocrisy in these rating involved.
It is ok if my kid is filled with hatred and violence from a Schwarzenegger movie, but it is not ok he sees a male of female sexual parts, something that we all posses. I will let psychiatrist deal with this enigma while they cry out “clear” when providing a well earned doses of electricity to the people responsible for these ratings.