Categories: Entertainment

It’s been almost two weeks since Borat hit theatres, but it’s still making an impact. IMDB ranks at 168th in its list of the 250 best movies of all time. The movie made a remarkable $26 million in it’s opening weekend, even more impressive considering that it only opened in 837 theatres. Borat’s MySpace profile (which is possibly the worst assembled webpage in the history of the Internet) shows him having 329,228 friends! (I bet most of them just befriended him to get hits for their profile or ‘cause it was cool. Posers.) It was official. Borat movie was success. It make lot of money, enough to buy all the prostitutes in Kazakhstan, leave enough for next movie, and maybe enough to buy enough firepower to kill all the Jews back home.

Its offensive content, which insulted Blacks, Whites, Feminists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and just about anyone with a soul, drew major laughs from moviegoers. But now the “innocent” people who were involved aren’t laughing. Two college boys are suing Cohen and 20th Century Fox, stating that the movie “made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community.”How? Because they made racist remarks about slavery while drunk, and said minorities have all the power. They claim they were taken advantage of, because they were encouraged to drink and when they became intoxicated, were persuaded to sign consent forms.

Dharma Arthur, a TV reporter, lost her job because she failed to do reasearch before booking Borat on a local news program. She said, “Because of him, my boss lost faith in my abilities and second-guessed everything I did thereafter…. I spiraled into depression, and before I could recover, I was released from my contract early. It took me three months to find another job, and now I’m thousands of dollars in debt and struggling to keep my house out of foreclosure…. How upsetting that a man who leaves so much harm in his path is lauded as a comedic genius”. And many people were duped into participating in the prank, mainly due to their own greed and lack of literacy.

Now these people are crying to the courts, trying to get what Sacha “owes” them. To them I say “Get over it!” You gave up that right when you signed the consent forms. Your desire for instant gratification overtook your good judgment. And now that your humiliation has entertained and made millions, you wanna whine to the authorities. I bet you wouldn’t care less if the movie was a flop. It’s that same greed that led you to this point in the first place. As for those college boys, your “mental anguish” is your fault. You showed who you truly are, and now that you’ve been revealed for the bigots that you are, you want to blame someone else. You will even go as far a blaming the alcohol, even though your friends say you are constantly drunk.

Dharma, just shut up. Even if Borat caused you to lose your job, he didn’t cause you to be thousands of dollars in debt. This is just a sad attempt to get the sympathy of the jury and make it look as if you’ve gone through hell. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? But Borat may have reached the peak of his success, as the other day he was knocked out by a potential victim while trying to pull a prank, a victim who probably recognized him and wasn’t up for it. Proof that since Borat has become a recognizable part of mainstream culture, it will be harder for him find saps for his interviews. One thing’s for sure, this is one foreigner whose visit will not soon be forgotten.