The two new films "Chicago Seven Gentlemen Trial" and "Polart 2" that have been recently launched in succession on the Internet have brought the name "Sasa Byron Cohen" back to the audience's attention.
As a genius comedy creator who is still active on the big and small screens in the new millennium, Byron Cohen has brought "Borat", "Dictator" and "Ace Spy" to the audience in his more than two decades of acting career. ": Greensby" and other hilarious comedy masterpieces, and in addition to the two important roles of comedy screenwriter and comedian, Cohen has also performed wonderfully in serious film and television dramas.
If "The Trial of the Chicago Seven Gentlemen" is a film in which Alan Sorkin monopolizes the creative rights, Cohen is only involved in it as an actor who mechanically obeys the script and the director's arrangement; then "Borat 2" is obviously more representative of Shasa Byr. Len Cohen himself, in this sequel to the 2006 sensational pseudo-documentary "Borat", Cohen continues to be the core of the whole work as a producer, screenwriter, and lead actor, expressing and sharing his work as a comedian. My own view of the current world.
Once "Borat" was released before 2006, it has aroused criticism and controversy of all sizes. This spoof comedy, which tells the story of a well-known Kazakhstan anchor who came to the United States for cultural exchanges, has stepped on too many minefields: some people think that it deliberately discredited Kazakhstan’s external image of the country, some people think that it has expressions of racial discrimination against Jews, and some People think that the whole work has a serious male chauvinistic atmosphere, which is neither unsightly nor respectful of disadvantaged groups.
Back then, "Borat" was indeed an unscrupulous, vulgar shit comedy, and even the film title "Borat: Learning American Culture in order to build a great motherland of Kazakhstan" maintained its opposition to seriousness. Stance.
But when we look back and re-examine it, we will find that the so-called minefields in the film are all pretexts, and what it really criticizes is the American culture itself.
And "Borat 2" inherited the pseudo-documentary form and comedy ideas of the previous work, and once again deduce an unlimited spoof of "Kazakhs in the United States". This time, Shasa Byron Cohen revolved around the three directions of American politics, women's rights and the epidemic.
In the world view of Porat, Kazakhstan is an extremely patriarchal poor society. This is a closed isolation from the outside world, with extreme hatred of the Jewish nation and no ethical restrictions. Incest between relatives and neighbourhood adultery are frequent occurrences. Women in this country have neither human rights nor the concept of feminism. Porat is the sixth-ranked TV reporter in the country, and his sister is the fourth-ranked prostitute in the country.
Although Kazakhstan is a very happy country, its economic, social development and Jewish ethnic issues are still very serious. Therefore, the Ministry of Information Industry decided to send Porat to the United States for cultural exchange and study, and plans to make his experience in the United States into a movie. Porat came to the United States with a national mission, accompanied by the producer, a torn suitcase with luggage and a chicken.
Borat landed in the United States with a sense of incomparable superiority, but cultural differences made him bump into walls here and frequently gave birth to laughingstocks. Seeing that Porat, whose task is not going well, accidentally saw a sexy porn girl on TV, he was instantly attracted by this woman and decided to go thousands of miles to chase her, but eventually returned without success.
Porat finally returned to Kazakhstan with the new black people he knew in the United States. Porat, who was influenced by American culture in a subtle way, changed the customs of his hometown. The dress of the local residents has kept up with the aesthetics of the times. People no longer hate Jews, but believe in Christianity. Women's social status has also been significantly improved, and everything seems to be moving in a good direction...
But the good times did not last long. Porat, who met with the audience again 14 years later, did not lead a good life, instead he fell into a prisoner of labor in the mining area. The reason is that the documentary they filmed in the United States in 2006 was a great success in the United States, making Kazakhstan the laughingstock of the world, and Kazakhstan's economy suffered a heavy blow.
Under the intervention of the authorities, the anti-Semitic activities that had been cancelled were transformed into a "holocaust remembrance day" celebrated throughout the country. The hatred of Jews across the country has become more and more serious, and women have once again lost their human rights.
Porat was resigned from his post, was publicly punished and humiliated, and was eventually sentenced to life in Gulag. But now, the government has sent people to bring Porat to the presidential palace, and the head of state has given Porat a chance to atone for his sins.
It turns out that in the 14 years of isolation in Porat, the United States has undergone earth-shaking changes. The African-American President Obama took power to subvert the traditional values of the United States, and Obama was therefore regarded as a villain by the Kazakhstan government. Now that Trump has come to power, he is regarded by the Kazakhstan authorities as a great leader.
In order to please the current American leader, the head of state of Kazakhstan decided to send Porat back to the United States and handed over the country’s Minister of Culture and the number one porn star Johnny Monkey to the lustful U.S. Vice President Michael Pence. Rumpu. The reason why Porat is not allowed to directly hand over the gift to Trump is because when Porat went to the United States for a mission last time, he had a bowel movement in front of Trump’s hotel...
Borat, who had returned to his hometown, had already become a notorious sinner. The folks in the village didn’t wait to see him. Now there are only a few animals left in Borat’s house and one who was kept in a barn because he was 15 years old and unmarried. daughter.
The daughter begged Porat to bring herself when she went to the United States, but Porat did not agree. Porat has traveled thousands of miles to the United States. He has already become a well-known celebrity in the United States, a shining pop culture symbol, and people can recognize him at a glance.
In order to cover people's eyes and complete the task smoothly, Porat changed himself to a new outfit and learned to use a smartphone. Johnny Monkey was then delivered by the courier company, but unfortunately, Johnny Monkey had been eaten raw by his daughter hiding in the wooden box, which meant that his mission was terminated prematurely. After getting in touch with the Kazakh authorities, the frustrated Porat decided to give his underage daughter instead of Johnny Monkey.
The daughter who was told of the plan by her father was very excited. For this girl who has no sense of human rights, being dedicated to a powerful old man is the greatest happiness she can imagine. In this way, the daughter got the opportunity to live with her father, and at the same time she also got a name: Tuta.
Tuta was inevitably influenced by the new things in front of him when he was walking with his father, and he learned some truths that had subverted his 15-year cognition. For example, women can put their fingers in their lower body without being bitten. Under the imperceptible cognition formation, Tuta and Porat gradually diverged, until they completely broke up and parted ways.
Porat thought that his mission would be shattered. He accepted the fate of failure, but things were not that simple. After all, pornographic bribery was only part of the plan of the Kazakh authorities. The real plan is also related to the continuing high influence in the United States. The new crown epidemic is related to...
Political tools on the eve of general elections
From a utilitarian point of view, "Borat 2" is more like a weapon against American conservatives. The core of the whole work is anti-Trump. Trump and Trump-related US Vice President Pence, New York City Mayor Rudy and others have also been hacked one after another.
The many scenes that appear in the film are not even previews of the script, but real scenes, such as the "Rudy Unspoken Rule Young Female Journalist" who was photographed after an interview. Although Rudy has repeatedly clarified in relevant interviews that the actions of himself and the reporter entering the bedroom alone and stretching his crotch were taken out of context, he was ridiculed on the Internet because of insufficient explanation.
Such "real scenes" are everywhere in the film. Whether these scenes are accidental or carefully planned by Porat, they obviously worked in Porat's expectations. Through these so-called "real" incidents that have frequently appeared in the news media, the whole work has hit the conservative party's evil and hypocritical side with a heavy blow.
At the time of the U.S. presidential election, the political stance and tool effectiveness of the entire work is self-evident. We don’t know for the time being whether the left and right parties in the United States will win or lose. The debut is clearly time for the left.
Intensified feminist topics
The discussion of women's rights has already ignited when "Borat" was released in 2006, but it was not until the appearance of Tuta as one of the protagonists in the sequel that women's rights truly became one of the core developments in the whole work. But in the final analysis, the reason why the whole work incorporates feminism as the theme of the plot is actually closely related to the "currentness" of the narrative in "Borat 2".
The Weinstein incident not only ignited the flame of feminism in Hollywood so far, but also burned into the entertainment industry of overseas countries from near and far to the business and political circles of the United States from the bottom up. Under the intensification of the Epstein incident and the sexual assault and pedophile scandals of major celebrities one after another, the issue of feminism has become one of the themes in "Borat 2", which is the inevitable trend.
The self-deprecating art of "injury one hundred enemies, one thousand self-defeating"
In the case of a lot of attacks on the previous work, "Borat 2" did not choose to give in. This shit comedy still slams on the minefield, still offending all audiences on topics such as race, politics, gender and culture. . But this kind of offense is precisely the charm of Shasa Byron Cohen’s art of self-deprecating: all offenses against others ultimately return to the self-ridicule.
For domestic audiences, there is also no lack of offensive words in "Borat 2", especially in the plot about the new crown epidemic. But when we look further, we will find that Cohen used these words to mock Trump and others' ultra-nationalism in shifting the trend of public opinion on the epidemic, and to mock Trump's inaction in the new crown epidemic.
In the previous work "Borat" there are many plots that demonize the image of Jews, but Cohen himself is a Jew; Kazakhstan is described as a barbaric zone, while the United States has become a paradise on earth by contrast. But as the story unfolds, the audience sees more of the arrogance and hypocrisy in American cultural genes...
Really high-level comedy embarrass the audience, but does not make the audience angry. Cohen's "Injury the enemy a hundred, self-defeate a thousand" is the essence of:
For audiences who are culturally other, "Borat 2" will not prevent them from coming to Taiwan; for audiences in the United States, "Borat 2" is nothing more than a comedy, the attributes of American cultural pride and arrogance. Decided that it tolerates all criticism, even if it ignores the criticism itself.
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