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Another awful show with two "characters" who get excited at anything happening at all. A coin, screaming, a tube, screaming, dirt, scream. Worst of all, in episode 6 they sexualize the professor they're going to see. She's a scientist and these are two full idiots. I hate this show.

Borat did something magical, it took my preconceived notion of hospitality and of human compassion and turned it on its ear. Borat at a southern mansion, culturally ignorant, acting poorly and yet for the most part, tolerated, and more than that, at times, excused, and helped. Meeting those black boys on the corner in some anonymous urban area and getting on with them well. If you don't know Andy Kaufman's origin story for Latka, a character similar to Borat, Andy was being mugged, pretended to be a foreigner, and the muggers left him alone. One wouldn't assume that the same kind of spirit would be afforded in this age, but Borat showed that not to be true. Baron Cohen tried to get people to not like him and they refused. It was exceptional and smart, edited to show the best in people while also being outrageously funny. Bruno is the exact opposite, stupid, crass, boorish. It's Sasha Baron Cohen losing all of his humanity and the humanity of others. And he's trying so hard to shock. It's not fun when all your doing is an expose on how far you'll go, whether ill conceived or not. I have to admit that this movie is funny. Sasha is a funny person, but this movie isn't smart and it isn't sending the right message. I wish that Cohen didn't try so hard, I wish that he picked a better opponent than southern fanatics. This movie could have been so much more than stereotypes and a damn near carbon copy plot as his last film. Perhaps Cohen isn't a good enough story teller to make it happen.

A moralistic fairy tale set in modern day. Brothers Black and White are orphans and run the streets of Treasure Town, doing what Cats do best, stealing and running. The Yakuza show up and start causing concern. Leaving little Black and sort out the situation. It is unbelievable how good this film is. Nuanced interesting characters are a vehicle for a over arching moral diatribe on cities, the people in them, and how we all deal with each other. White is purity, he's naive, but has a general sense of good, which is married to his seemingly stunted educational and emotional growth. His older brother, Black, on the other hand, is smart, streetwise, good in a fight, and has lost the innocence that White still possess. And we are able to interpret events that occur during the film through both of their eyes. This film had very interesting art, childish of a sort, but designed for the sake of experimentation, and to remind us that we're in a story that is seen and narrated by children. It used a full palette of colors and symbolism to help extend the story to the viewer and it succeeded masterfully. All said, this film broke my heart in a million different beautiful ways. I loved this film, and not since Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) has a film been able to effect me so profoundly. I know I will never forget this film. When this comes out of DVD, rent it, or, if you're lucky, run to the theater and catch this before it disappears.