Reading a review of "Borat"

Right now I'm trying to update my blog with posts in October, but I had to blog this before I forget about it.

I read a review of the new movie "Borat" at JewishJournal.com. The "mock-umentary" is controversial, and some think it's a little over the top because a British, Jewish comedian plays the role of an anti-Semitic Kazakh peasant who travels the U.S.

I really like this paragraph from the review:

"I saw the movie yesterday," said Roman Y. Vassilenko, an ambassadorial assistant and press secretary for Kazakhstan's U.S. embassy, when interviewed last week. "Like Jonathan Swift wrote 'Gulliver's Travels' and invented a country, Lilliput, to make a satire of England, this is the same thing. He invents a Kazakhstan in order to make a satire of a very different country."

Both witty and astute. A satire of a very different country indeed.