Cohen hits form peak Before I talk about this bomb, I can't help but give you a little background. When Sacha Baron Cohen filmed 'Borat' everyone thought they understood what it was about - Kazakh, traveling around America to get, at least in some places, Pamela Anderson. ' Funny' When Sacha Baron Cohen filmed 'Bruno', everyone somehow agreed that they did not understand what it was about to pretend to be incomprehensible and mock the guests. 'Not particularly funny' When 'Dictator' appeared, the audience nodded approvingly - ' yes, we got it, it's ridiculous!' But all this, as it turned out, was a search for a format that is now finally found in perfect proportion - in ' Who is America?' it turns out that earlier Cohen tried under the guise of satire to convey to us a rather serious problem, but everyone just giggled, and he got tired of it. Then he took the abscesses of society seriously.
If before the director tried to do some plot, and somehow decorate his satire with lace, now he beats a large shot right at point-blank range. Without being distracted by trifles, he for seven half-hour episodes, glued together from segments of minutes of ten, just frankly arranges people a tough test for the adequacy of a cocktail of glasnost and dullness.
The test is very simple - having made up as an odious person & #39; (like an Israeli fighter against terrorists, or an Italian fashion billionaire), he begins rubbing game at people under the guise of an interview. Wild game like Oymyakon winter. It starts out kind of for health, but after a couple of simple questions begins to such that any sane person should at this moment think - ' you mean what do you mean?!' Attacks of laughter here occur absolutely instantly - from zero to rupturing the spleen, the body accelerates in one phrase. But not to those who are being interviewed. These, with a completely stone face (camera, motor - work for fame, earn political capital!) absorb it like a sponge, gain air in the lungs, and at the exit show us a slice of American society. Democrats, restaurant critics, scientists, rap battlers, spiritual practitioners, representatives of art galleries and musical trends, TV stars and, of course, Republicans of varying degrees of titularity (up to Dick Cheney!), who are especially gluttonous - just a godsend for trolls.
In order not to go far, I will give you examples of questions - ' Do you agree that you should give children guns right from kindergarten, from the age of four? Support the bill? How about a gun ad targeting children? Say, toys in the form of a bear cub with ' Beretta' inside?' How would you answer that? If you are curious, as the congressmen and well-known gun rights fighters in the United States answered, on camera, sincerely, with full confidence in their rightness - look ' Who Is America First Look' (link I do not give - not all sites are favorable to this). This is a ten-minute clip from the series that makes everything clear. Only in English, with subtitles. Russian voice translation is already available in the full version, but, of course, it does not transmit all shades - I recommend taking subtitles separately (the good can already be found).
By the end of the volley swallowed all seven episodes, I was already breathing with difficulty, and still found strength for new explosions of uncontrolled laughter. You can't believe it's all real, that it's not a production, and that makes it even funnier and sadder. One of the politicians after the series has already resigned. Others were explained on federal television. Still others felt that they now owe compensation for the fact that their ' cheated'. Uncle aunts, don't be fooled - you were shown as you are. And it is terrible that ' opinion leaders' as they say now, are such people.
If the collection did not have normal, who stood up and said ' well, no, guys, I went', the effect would be thinner - you could count that Cohen mounted everything on his knee and gave a portion ' fake news' but no - it turns out, you can be an adequate person and disagree with complete nonsense. The main thing is not to forget to be honest with yourself, and not to give the participants preferences and sympathies based only on titles or affiliations to a group. Only on the basis of people's words and deeds. Only in this way you will look at each other with the abyss to the point of colic in your stomach.
10 out of 10
You'll like it if you like to watch people who are small-minded, uneducated, but you don't know why they're respected. Leave the bigotry at the entrance, otherwise you will find it in it, but already rolled up with a pipe.
Don't appreciate it if you're easily offended, both verbally and by the sight of penises, even if three and a half of the four shown are rubber. Also, you won’t laugh if you think laughing at stupid people is like blanks.
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