Regarding secretly filmed programs, we often see from TV that they are generally news-type in China, such as how people who sell fakes make a promise. In the imported foreign TV programs, the author often sees the design of certain pranks, and then secretly photographs the expressions of innocent people. Probably because of the different national conditions, sneak shots are a means of exposing at home, while abroad it is a game attitude. And "Borat" introduced foreign pranks into the movie.
Porat is a fictional character, created by the nonsense talk show host who starred Cohen in his own column, and then gave this character a real-world identity, and then let him start traveling around the United States, no script, all The shooting plans are random, but the director will make a second creation in the final editing.
This method of shooting is similar to that of a documentary. The only difference is the fiction of the character of Porat and the ideological fiction of the character, otherwise we can indeed regard it as a documentary. Due to the use of sneak shots, a large number of people appear in front of the camera with the most authentic original appearance, so this kind of authenticity is still very documentary style. But due to the difference in creativity, of course this film must be attributed to the name of the film.
In fact, this method of shooting is extremely innovative and can almost be regarded as the cinematization of the TV program. Of course, you can also regard it as a cinematic documentary.
The above is about the metaphysical problem. The existence of this problem proves the uniqueness of this film and the novelty of this film. I believe that many similar films will appear in the future. For the film industry, this is undoubtedly a very interesting one. matter. The problem comes back to the movie itself. Forgive me for my ignorance. It may be the first time I have seen such a spoofed movie.
Borat is a Kazakh show host. He is closed and paranoid. In order to learn from the most civilized country in the world, he set foot on the territory of the United States and wanted to see what should be learned from the Americans. So the story came into being. NS. There is an extremely obvious theme here, that is, the film will lead the audience to take a look at the living conditions of Americans, but unfortunately, in all eyes, this Porat is a foreign object, his ignorance, his patriarchal color and his All of the anti-Semitic thoughts mean that this is a non-realistic character, and it is definitely interesting to see the present America through such a character.
First of all, let’s look at Porat’s life. In the movie, Kazakhstan is almost in a state of being seriously backward or even ignorant of modern civilization. Everything seems so simple. There is no sin or modern civilization. It is so simple that it even violates the social significance of modern civilization. I don’t know why Porat’s background was set up in Kazakhstan. Although its predecessor had a background in the Commonwealth of Independent States, it would obviously not be in such a social original state. Therefore, we know that the only purpose of this is to show a kind of simplicity corresponding to modern American civilization, and the technique used is an exaggerated spoof. This reminded me of the film "God Is Crazy". The Coke bottle of modern civilization caused the indigenous people to panic, so I started the journey of returning the bottle to face the so-called complexity of modern civilization with a true simplicity.
Obviously, the establishment of the opposite of the film "Borat" is similar to "God Is Crazy", but the technique is truly jaw-dropping. After coming to the United States, Porat simply saw all kinds of isms in the United States, including homosexuality, pornography, feminists, and cult churches practiced in the name of Christianity. His greatest wish, Seeing and marrying a beautiful woman is extremely funny in all this doctrine. A simple human luck pursues his American dream with a very simple thinking and a very simple psychological motivation or desire, but the United States he sees has no dreams, all dreams seem to be abnormal, and his simple It became funny in the face of this abnormal doctrine, so a sense of irony emerged from the film. Just like "God Is Crazy", the belligerence of civilization is so terrible in the eyes of simple indigenous people.
When the nonsensical spoof is embodied in a person who is actually very simple, then all normal people are caught in this spoof game without knowing it by themselves. This is a huge irony. Cohen apparently applied his outstanding stunts in his talk show to the action of filming. The eight-person camera crew recorded the complexity of the society in a complex society. Therefore, except for Porat played by Cohen, all The plot is actually true and documentary, but the documentary is maliciously mocked by Porat.
It can be seen that the filming mechanism, filming techniques, and forms of expression of this film are indeed alternative, but in fact the theme of its internal expression is extremely clear. The kind of reflection on American society’s various doctrines is what the film really wants to express. Things, so Porat, who was condemned to return home, was finally able to face the camera with a smile. The relationship between simplicity and complexity is inherently subtle. Simple learning is complicated, but complexity is a heavy non-ideal state.
Han Xi,
2007-7-8 in Tongzhou
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