Looking to its second weekend, the question will be how much the "Borat" phenomenon can grow. With humor both low-brow and bracingly satirical, the movie could polarize some audiences, though that is not what the producers found during preview screenings.
"People have taken offense to certain aspects of the movie, but the wide majority of audiences are smart enough to know he's depicting a backwards view in a very smart way," producer Jay Roach said. "He's also able to hold up a satirical mirror to us to expose our prejudices, and people get that."
For example, the speech Borat gave in Texas in this Rodeo competition, he was saying "war of terror" intsead "war on terror", might be just bad English, might be just how the author felt.
Another Jewish friend of mine, also said that some religious people are just self rightious, they think they're better than others. She told me a story that once her grandfather said proudly that there's no poor people in his church, right, maybe those poor people can't afford to give 5% of their income to be close to God... Since when belive in God has to do with donations? When I was in high school I learned that in the Dark Ages, people pay to have their sins lifted... hmmm, interesting... What's up with the Catholic prists and choir boys, Rev. Haggard? And dude, I'm not ignorant of Christianity and faith, I used to go to church when I was in junior college. Lucky me, it wasn't a Catholic church.. kewl...

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