BORAT

The movie Borat is a demonstration of Simulation and Hyperreality, where the boundary between reality and fiction is fairly vague. Most of the time the two are blended together and it's hard to distinguish which is which. The only fictional characters in the movie are roles of Borat, Azamat Luenell and Pamela Anderson. Even though those invented personalities were very fictional, once put in a real or true context it suddenly becomes part of reality. As most scenes were unscripted, everything was spontaneous and intuitive, turning the movie into a real experiment of human reactions. Therefore, the movie is both real and unreal. The actor, Sacha Baron Cohen, was able to portray his fictional character very well that people believed he was real, that they were his true behaviours. This is where the stimulation or representation created the real. Then how do we distinguish the truth and what's not, and who's to say that what has been created is real? Moreover, the use of a Kazakh persona that is quite obscure and is not widely known made it more believable to the audience because they have no knowledge or expectancies of what a real Kazakh should be like. What made Borat funny was the questionable thought throughout the movie thinking is it real or unreal. The character of Borat still had a very old-fashioned set of mind, being surprised by gay traditions and women rights. The way the movie was filmed was also convincing because it seemed like a reality TV show, a real documentary and real interviews being conducted.