Borat Borat Borat!
What's up with this Borat guy and his movie with a scene of him supposedly receiving the Holy Spirit? Has comedy gone too far, or did the unsuspecting actor have a genuine experience? I was reading over at Collideoscope about the whole thang, but the link was dead to the Matt Lauer interview, and the youtube link stated that the clip had been removed by request from 20th Century Fox.

So, let's step back a moment and look at this event. Comedian makes a movie, attempting to find the "true" America, even though his assumptions are tainted by a television viewpoint, in my opinion. Sounds like the only channel Borat watches is MTV. He sneaks his camera into a church service, and sincere folks pray for him. It seems to me that Borat has indeed caught a true glimpse of our country at that point, whether pretending or not.

I remember watching the Blues Brothers when I was a kid, and there was a church* service where folks were jumping up and down, dancing in the aisles, one guy was jumping like he was on a trampoline, and Belushi did backflips all the way to the front door after "seeing the light" at the altar. That was my favorite part of the movie, and I had never been in a Pentecostal worship type of church in my life. And when I did show up, the whole thing wasn't as foreign to me because of the Blues Brothers.

Believe it or not.


*James Brown was the preacher.