BRUNO
Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 06:03PM Anyone seen Bruno yet? I believe I heard that a group of under- age teenagers in the neighborhood managed to see it last night. And my husband and a group of his guy friends are planning to go en masse tonight. Apparently, a totally gross movie that you can sit and laugh at/with is just what the doctor ordered. But not for me. I definitely will be taking a pass on this one.
John Nolte reviews Bruno at Big Hollywood:
“…I think it was Andy Warhol who said that after ten minutes of watching porn he wanted to have sex with everyone, but after an hour he never wanted to have sex again. That pretty well sums up sitting through “Bruno."
“Maybe this is just the beginning for Baron Cohen, maybe he’s working his way towards something truly “fresh” and “brave” … something where he sends a Christian into a GLAAD meeting, a cowboy into a La Raza gathering… We’ll see what happens to a parked car with a “NObama” sticker at NYU or MSNBC, or to a screenwriter pitching a pro-Bush script at a Hollywood studio… Better yet, a Berkeley student with a Palin t-shirt, or a white South African running for elected office in a Democrat primary as an “African-American.”
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Oddly enough I've just been writing about Bruno at my own blog, so I'll repeat what I said there.
I think the difference between Ali G in 1999 and Borat and Bruno since then is that Ali G was exposing the cant and hypocrisy that was practiced by the sort of people who watched him, whereas Borat and Bruno don't hold up a mirror to the audience's own shortcomings but instead point and laugh at the little people.
This sfuff they put out that " he is exposing society's hypocrisy " is complete bullshit. He's mocking the little people, the big people, anyone and everyone
I haven't seen the film Bruno but I doubt very much if it is an attempt to expose supposed 'homophobia'. There is no need to read politically correct politics into it. Sacha Baren Cohen is simply creating a grossly exaggerated stereotyped figure and putting him into cringeworthy situations for humerous effect. Bruno is clearly not designed to be a sympathetic character promoting tolerance of gay people. It's entertainment that's all.
That Bruno individual is repulsive,entertainment for the brain dead
I've heard a number of times, on NPR radio and elsewhere, that the movie is meant to expose " homophobia " and society's " uptight views ". Those who say that aren't smart enough to realize that the joke is on them too.
Peter E
He's a character in a movie. It's not real!
Phantom -
Mark Kermode is a respected film reviewer here. He stated on Friday on BBC radio that an effort has been made to cast the film in that way. However, his own opinion of the film is that this does not stand up. He stated also that Baron-Cohen told him in an interview that this is a lot of nonsense also.
I can't say, I've not seen it. According to Kermode though, it's very very very rude.
The point is that its the gay community itself which seems to delight in such ridiculous stereotypes, and tries very hard when en masse in public to live up to it. Now they are having a mirror held up to their antics and have only have themselves to blame.
No doubt Ron Paul has had something to say about Cohen's Jewishness, and how its another example of Israeli hegemony keeping America down. I wonder what he thought of the Hamas/hummus sequence?