Bruno.

So I finally got the courage to go and see Bruno.
I think it does come down as a courage thing. Anyone who's seen (or even heard of) Borat will know that it's a ticket to be shocked.
And it does deliver that in spades.

Actually, due to the sexual nature of the subject, it does feel "sicker"... More twisted would be a better term I guess. In a sense, I think it's wrong that talking about sex seems more shocking than being antisemitic. Yet that's how our society works, I guess...

Anyway it is a perverted movie, for sure and it does prove some fair points, as Borat did. "Disgusting" moments are only more disgusting... Be ready for pubes and a talking penis...

The set pieces are really great, wonderfully subversive: that judge from the X-Factor (or wherever) talking of her chritative work sitting on mexican workers, a cage fights which degenerates into a gay love scene... In a turn of brilliance, Bruno makes conversations with people specialised in turning gay people straight disturbingly "gay"...

Whatever you think of the movie you have to give it (!) to Sacha Baron Cohen: he's talented and he's got guts...
As with Borat, 2 questions stay in my mind:
1) How much of the movie was staged?
2) How is he still alive???

It is hitting hard on the US, but indirectly, we get the flack, as the US are just a bit more extreme than we are...

To paraphrase the review I read in liberation, "if you're laughing everywhere, you're missing the point and if you're standing here shocked, you're missing it also".

Whether you find it funny or not, I think it still raises a point worth reflecting upon.

And as a piece of trash cinema (in a sort of Michael Moore meets Jackass) it's just pure gold.