Soo, basically, the liberal media world is going to praise Bruno for exposing our homophobia, just as Borat was praised for exposing our racism and general geographical stupidity. But I'm expecting to have the same internal debate about whether or not Sasha's caricature (and it really is an over-the-top, cliche-ridden character) is actually re-enforcing the bigoted perception of gay people. I mean, the leather gear? Really? The obsession with Sex and the City? CLICHE CLICHE CLICHE. Fighting with dildos? Making stupid and bizzare fashion choices? Bringing a gay slave to a mall? A gay slave. To a mall. Religious people running away from the gay. It's like attack of the gays!
Hmm, let's see. Gays are obsessed with orgies and bad fashion and inserting things into their asses and scaring the bejesus out of religious people. What is this movie telling me that I couldn't already learn by reading the emails from the American Family Association?
People are going to laugh when they see this movie, but they're going to be laughing for different reasons. Stupid American homophobic teenagers are going to be laughing because "Dude, what a fag," (and I'm sure this is the sort of insight that's already filling up the Youtube comment section) and other, more tolerant folks, are going to laugh because Sasha's "exposing our nation's homophobia." Whatever. There's nothing artistically innovative about what Sasha's doing. He's not exposing anything. This movie is an act of recycling.
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