Movie Review: Borat is back

What times are we living...And I am not talking about the pandemics, but about the overall global situation dominated by political characters that seem to be out of the Middle Ages bestiaries. No offense to the Middle Ages...

Photo: Amazon Prime

Borat the grotesque Kazakhstanian character is back on the screens. If you´ve followed Who is America which is actually a realistic view into what is America and who represents it, Borat 2 - released yesterday on Amazon Prime - is just a fictionalized version of a reality already unfolding. 

And this reality is an absurd mixture of vulgarity, nonsense and infatuation. Stupidity magnified at its highest levels. Plus a vulgarity which goes more than once far beyond any acceptability, but nothing really matters in a world where there is no distinction between good and evil, value and non-value.

Is this movie mostly about America? At a certain extent yes, but the outrageous irony is portraying an entire ´movement´ when people inform themselves from Facebook which turned in fact into a factory of falsehood and lies. Cohen, that produced the movie, was vocal in the last period of time against the social networks, particularly Facebook, accusing them of allowing the distoring of reality and promotion of ´fake news´. 

There is also a strong message about women and the way they are treated, not only in the imaginary Kazakhstan but also in the everyday America. But in order to seize this message one needs to be persistent enough to take out layer after layer of grotesque and nauseatic vulgarity. 

The absurdity embraces not only the story and its main events, but also the way in which the people are dressed and particularly their ways of talking. For instance, the Kazakhstan state representatives are talking in a perfect bureaucratic Romanian while Borat himself is conversing to the Slavic speaking daughter in a Russian-accented Hebrew. 

I cannot say that I really enjoy Borat 2, in the literally pleasant sense of the word, but I don´t regret watching it. In a sense, it was like watching a Facebook feed or some random selection of cable news around the world.