This makes Luis Bunuel's Land Without Bread look like a perfect historic document. It's like a 12 year old looks at Africa and just makes up opinions about things after being told he's the smartest kid in the world. It's very entertaining and it's very useful. When they are not staging people and the sound is off this is amazing footage. They capture a lot of scenery of the time. Apparently at the time, if you could afford a camera and were willing to point it at something interesting, you could consider yourself a documentarian.
I do realize he's telling bad jokes but it's the statements when he's being serious that make it so absurd.
He's making everything up as he narrates. He thinks a child's belly that indicates malnourishment is an indication of eating well. I fact checked a statement he made about a giraffe and it's completely incorrect. His statements about rhinos are also incorrect. Lions manes vary based on weather not because they get caught on bushes.
His knowledge of insects is the insects today do not act as well as insects in the Bible. Ungodly insects apparently. He provides an explanation for a practice of women in a tribe and it is wrong on every aspect. He states that nobody understands the behavior of impalas and then offers made-up information about the behavior of impalas.
These gentlemen are making a Borat style exposé about themselves. There's a scene where they obviously told two Africans to do something silly and then yell at them not to do it. This is a few white men discovering Africa by having dozens of black people do all their work. He points out that they use people from different tribes that can't talk to each other to make sure they don't all quit at the same time.
Like Land Without Bread, this is a period piece that demonstrates a time when documentaries lacked journalistic standards. I do recognize some of this continues today and hence Borat has a lot of work to do.
I do realize he's telling bad jokes but it's the statements when he's being serious that make it so absurd.
He's making everything up as he narrates. He thinks a child's belly that indicates malnourishment is an indication of eating well. I fact checked a statement he made about a giraffe and it's completely incorrect. His statements about rhinos are also incorrect. Lions manes vary based on weather not because they get caught on bushes.
His knowledge of insects is the insects today do not act as well as insects in the Bible. Ungodly insects apparently. He provides an explanation for a practice of women in a tribe and it is wrong on every aspect. He states that nobody understands the behavior of impalas and then offers made-up information about the behavior of impalas.
These gentlemen are making a Borat style exposé about themselves. There's a scene where they obviously told two Africans to do something silly and then yell at them not to do it. This is a few white men discovering Africa by having dozens of black people do all their work. He points out that they use people from different tribes that can't talk to each other to make sure they don't all quit at the same time.
Like Land Without Bread, this is a period piece that demonstrates a time when documentaries lacked journalistic standards. I do recognize some of this continues today and hence Borat has a lot of work to do.