How does this criticize Americans?
I've heard from several people that this film is supposedly making fun of Americans, and not Kazakhstan.
I really never got that -- In what way does it parody or criticize America?
How does it not?
From the blacks in atlanta to the rednecks at the rodeo to the obsession with ridiculous celebrities like Pam Anderson.
I really think it makes fun of everyone and everything like family guy.
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
-Dr. Johnson
I don't know, it just came across to me as how an uneducated village idiot would react to being in America, so I see it more as making fun of the idiot, not America.
Pam Anderson for example. It was the village idiot chasing her and putting a bag over her head, not "America".
It's more about what it represents, he was taken with her just the way america was some years ago.
Just as in movie though people can see things differently, that's just my perspective.
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
-Dr. Johnson
Well, it shows that the Americans are racist and aren't understanding of a different culture. If Borat does something that he sees as normal that Americans aren't used to, they get offended and make fun of him instead of trying to understand that other people see it as the norm.
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