Best Anarchist in a Motion Picture

Back in 1999 I saw a stunning film. It made the Simpsons look like Sunday School, and Beavis and Butthead like mouthpieces of the establishment. The movie I'm talking about is South Park. In case you have not seen it, you must. And if you are wondering what it was about, all I'll say is that it featured a homosexual relationship between Saddam Hussein and the Devil. And that was just one of the sub-plots. Before you ask, Saddam was the outer spoon :-)

Tonight I saw South Park's spiritual sequel, Lil' Pimp. (The rest of this paragraph needs to be read in a movie-trailer Hollywood baritone.) This is the story of a boy and his struggle to redeem his friends. To bring salvation to the role model he worshipped as a father. To rediscover his mother. This is the story of the Lil' Pimp.

Lil' Pimp is a fatherless schoolkid. While not doing his homework he befriends a pimp, has a lock-picking pet rat, and talks his mom into dressing up as a hooker. Simply magical.

I think there should be awards for the most evil, subversive movies. For best actor in a leading role, the award goes to Sacha Baron Cohen (for the title role in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan). Best actress is probably Cristina Ricci as Wednesday in The Addams Family. And best original song would have to go to the much-decorated South Park for the timeless classic Kyle's Mom Is A Bitch. Sing with me:
Kyle's mom's a bitch, she's a big fat bitch,
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
...and so on.

But coming back to Borat, not only is the film hilarious, so is the controversy surrounding it. The American media has been in a tizzy about the film's apparent denigration of Kazakhstan. What they have totally missed is that it takes the mickey out of America! Cohen is a master at acting stupid to make other people look like morons. A few years ago he made a movie called "Ali G in da house". In which he kept a straight face while debating with an FBI officer whether an old couple were terrorists who were using an elaborate sign language code, or whether they were using sign language because they were mute. And now as Borat he gets an American hunter to say "It's a great feeling to consummate a hunt". Only in America, home of the NRA.