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Borat and Brokeback Mountain: Human Rights Violations
March 09, 2007
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Alright already. A lot of people liked these movies. A lot of people didn’t. Borat was “too” staged and embarrassed many well-meaning people (like the southern family). And Brokeback was another gay tragedy as if gays can only be on the big screen if their lives end badly.
Yet, here these two mega-popular flicks are again: this time on an official State Department list of human rights abuses.
Really.
“From the movies Borat to Brokeback Mountain, foreign governments banned or restricted access to a variety of big and little screen entertainment as well as live events, the State Department says.”
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen -- creator of Borat, the crass Kazakh chronicler of the American condition -- and the gay cowboy love story that won three Oscars were hit with what it deemed violations of freedoms of speech and expression.
So were the The Da Vinci Code, ''The Vagina Monologues'' and even the popular Google Earth Web site, according to the department's annual survey of global human rights practices released this week.
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