摘要：In the faux-reality mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,1 Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev and his producer (and at least one unseen, unnamed camera man) travel from Kazakhstan to the United States to document American culture for the edification of Kazakhstan’s citizenry. Upon arriving in America, Borat alters the documentary’s course of action without informing his producer, using his cross-country tour of America to set about finding and marrying Pamela Anderson, whom he sees on television in his New York City hotel room in an episode of Baywatch. Borat nevertheless continues to meet and interview a diverse assortment of Americans, all the while surreptitiously plotting his route to Los Angeles to find Anderson. Throughout the movie, Sacha Baron Cohen, who is one of the film’s producers and screenwriters, as well as the creator of and the actor playing Borat, invites audiences to laugh both at Borat and the Americans he encounters. And for American audiences, Borat becomes an opportunity both to witness and to question the limits of their tolerance, hospitality, and open-mindedness.
