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What the hell are you on?
Do I have to score some "loveboat" to parse your words into thoughts?
Could you have your legal guardians rewrite those posts for you?
Assuming they are not all as tranked or anesthetized up as you appear to be.
Schizophrenia may be horrible, but the drugs used to treat it are even worse.
Once you are off the meds, maybe your posts will start making sense in about 3 months once they are out of your system.
Good luck and Godspeed my fishy "K".
Ketamine is essentially legal analogue of PCP. If that it being legal is something that you believe is safe to use - it isn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
Then again, it may not be drugs, it may just be schizophrenia.
K?
For the most part, "Borat" showed how generous, tolerant and hospitable Americans can be when are confronted with an obnoxious visitor from another country. The most prominent legal action against Cohen and the film was filed by one of the frat boys who got drunk and said some things he wish he hadn't. (The funniest scene in the movie, because the drunk, rich kids were a great target.)
Even after the film came out, the college guy's MySpace page said he enjoyed "gettin' drunk and havin' a good time" - and showed several photos of the guy holding beverages.
These films couldn't be made if people weren't so anxious to expose themselves to the world. Millions want to be on TV or in a movie, and are willing to make fools of themselves in the process. Folks are tricked into thinking Cohen's films are documentaries, and they sign away their dignity.
That said, I commend my fellow Americans (like the hunters) who held back as "Bruno" tried to goad them into displaying bigotry.
I live in the South, and I can assure visitors that the great majority of us are tolerant, welcoming people. I know many conservative men and women who believe in "live and let live." Even after a couple of drinks, they don't express hatred for those unlike themselves. They are also savvy enough not to sign releases to appear in a fake documentary because they know a bit of clever editing could make them look ridiculous.
I love Salon, but David Rakoff has got to go. He is the worst of your hires. I beg Salon readers to go to Slate and read Dennis Lim. That guy knows his gay film comedy.
I have never seen SBC, so I really can't say whether he is funny or not. I do think the world has gotten too politically correct!
I grew up in a time, when kids were spanked if they misbehaved. Likewise I went to a Catholic school, where the Nuns and Brothers beat education into us! There were jokes about Blacks, Germans, Jews, Poles, Italians etc etc. They existed to get a laugh out of people. People then, could laugh at themselves. Somehow that is gone, in todays society. This generation is simply too sensitive. Grow up folks!
Getting back to SBC. I think he is out to get laughs, at any cost. To put it in NewYorkese, it's simply "his shtick" to poke fun at our foibles. I honestly don't think he is out to point a finger at any group in particular. He is simply trying to get laughs!
You're a very silly man. And, not in a good way.
Did it occur to you that this is EXACTLY the kind of article that SBC was hoping would be written about Bruno?
Borat was unfunny and pretty forgettable, aside from watching Sacha Baron Cohen's naked scrawny body running around. That was just painful. But I've never liked the whole "reality show let's mindfuck people because we can" business. I understand there were tons of people who sued to get their faces off the film. The press at that time was so breathless with praise and I didn't get why. It sucked.
Bruno. What is the fucking point for that movie to be made? I agree it's like white people singing in black face. But Sacha Baron Cohen is no Al Jolson. The ads make me cringe so much that I am too embarrassed to even look at them.
I thought he spent what limited talent he had in Ali G.
I am glad there are people who can say the emperor has no clothes this time around.
Please Mr. Rakoff, can you avoid the use of this term? We're gay people, not a baseball team.
Why "Brüno" is bad for gay people -- GOOD
Why "Brüno" is bad for the gay community -- GOOD
Why "Brüno" is bad for the gays -- BAD
The author actually cites (gasp!) other examples of gay films/actors to make his point!
http://www.slate.com/id/2222553/
The clip he links to from the Ali G show when Bruno visits Alabama is hilarious!
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I don't think Rakoff understood that this was a satire, it must have gone over his head. Did he think he was watching Brokeback Mountain II, or Milk II?
Is you're all fucking crazy. Ok, Rightwingers knock the shit off, Lefty friends laugh. Ok its a dumb fucking movie, I watched Borat and laughed my ass off cause SBC made himself look like an asshole for 2 hours, again I didn't believe the Anti-Semitism message of the movie, I was surprised to hear that it was suppose to highlight anti-semitism in America, but thats been discussed, the movie looks offensive to me, not becuase of Gay rights issues but because it looks stupid but all that aside let us ask one question, if movies aren't important to civil rights issues, would Sidney Poitier have been important to the Civil Rights movement in the 60s when at that time period Blacks weren't shown in a good light? This issue is some how sublimely simply complex.
So gay people, if you think its offensive protest it, unless that'll generate more publicity for the film. And Homophobes that will see it and laugh cause, Haha the gays, go die and do the world a favor, until than everyone lighten the fuck up