Who are we really laughing at in this movie? Borat was pretty much a comedic success in 2006 with audiences and critics receiving it well. I couldn't help but wondering if the joke was on the audience the entire time of watching this movie though. The heart of the movie is mean-spirited, so it isn't that we are laughing with the makers of the movies, but more so it's like a bully picking on you, and then trying to laugh with the bully about being picked on as he continues to assault you. I don't think the intent of this movie was to have a light laugh at the expense of others though. There is a lot of political and religious undertones that seems like just a heyday for the makers who are all on the same page to laugh at the same thing.
Kazakh TV reporter, Borat, is sent to the United States to report on the United States, and also bring back some tips from the culture in order to help his own struggling country. A documentary crew follows him as he travels from New York to California on a road trip, and sets up multiple interviews along the way with people who are supposedly unknowing that this is a mockumentary. Borat encounters a distraction to his goal though when he falls for Pamela Anderson after seeing her in Baywatch, and sets his sights instead on locating and marrying her.
