This weekend, I grit my teeth and bore the brunt of the hideous hit called Borat. Although I had an honest try at watching when the movie came out, I felt as if I should be more motivated and informed about the controversy. If this is the one piece of information known about the place where I am going and if folks are apt to make endless jokes related to this character, I should at least be aware of the reference, right? It was not so awful and so much more awful at the same time. Perhaps I just don't have the right kind of sense of humor.
I was a bit happier to see the damage well mitigated by the following piece of glittering tourism advertisement I came across this morning:
What more enticement do you need to visit us in this "glorious nation"?
*For yet another perspective, the 2008 film Tulpan about a sailor's return to the steppe is well worth watching.
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Saw Tulpan at Telluride and loved it! (Leave for the festival tomorrow - maybe I'll find another Kazakh gem there this year).
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