starsgoblue
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That is a good point, Trev
This bit struck me as a singularly horrible irony--I can't help but imagine Baron Cohen must've winced when he heard about Buzea's comment.The village, like others in the Dambovita region of Romania, is populated mainly by gipsies who say they are discriminated against by the rest of the country.
Indeed, when local vice-mayor Petre Buzea was asked whether the people felt offended by Baron Cohen's film, he replied: 'They got paid so I am sure they are happy. These gipsies will even kill their own father for money.'
vaz02 said:Did you all know that the creator of Borat is jewish ?
tpsreports2424 said:Wasn't there some sort of contract that everyone signed? How about reading the contract?? C'mon, this movie was all in just fun, and which I thought was REALLY funny.
diamond said:
I'm not talking about the Red Necks in the film.
I could care less about them.
The ppl I'm refering to are in the article I linked, perhaps you can take a few moments and read it.
The people were duped.
Read the article:
Guess I won't be downloading this one ... let alone pay to watch it.
- Kc, Las Cruces, NM
Angela Harlem said:Why sympathy for the poor disabled villagers, and not the frat boys? I find that a little strange. If the Romanian folk have a case, then so do the frat boys.
starsgoblue said:The villagers I feel bad for.
Drunken frat boys don't get my sympathy though.
inmyplace13 said:
I don't understand how people don't think it's a joke. If they came and filmed me and said my apartment is a shithole and I'm a racist who eats kittens, I wouldn't lose sleep over it since it's fucking fictional.
redkat said:
Did you read the article? Apparently they didnt know what was happening.
If the deceived party neither knows or has reason to know of the character of the proposed contract, the effect of the misrepresentation is that the parties never contracted.
It appears the villagers fit the bill for misrepresentation.
tpsreports2424 said:
Then that is totally their faults for them not knowing of what is going on...As long as they signed the waver, you can't fight that, not even if they didnt know.
redkat said:
no that's not true at least not in the U.S
diamond said:
Reason being is that the gist of the film was to instigate Jewish hatred by somebody who doesn't hate Jews but was on a mission to expose those that do.
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mkdominatr said:
What are we supposed to do about hatred then? Hide from it and sweep it under the carpet? Or face it and prove how stupid hatred and prejudice of any kind is........?
trevster2k said:Yeah, Borat should be ashamed of himself for introducing us to a town we never heard of filled with people we know nothing about in a country most of us can't find on a map and then exploiting them to make us laugh at our own ignorance.
partygirlvox said:Good - I HATED that film. I thought it would be making fun of people who deserved it (namely right wing americans etc) but instead it just made fun of jewish people, and feminists.
I very nearly walked out of the cinema.