Thirty Million Dollars?????

I have seen Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; it is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, and I do intend on seeing it again.

It is of course very popular, and as a result, is making a lot of money. However whenever you publicly make money in America, other people want to try and take some of that off you. It’s a national hobby in America to sue people and already there are plenty of reports of people filing suits against the makers of the movie. The latest one is by the Romanian villagers that were used at the start of the movie to represent a fictional town in Kazakhstan. They claim they were told they were making a documentary about poverty in Romania and they were not aware the movie was a satire. As a result, they are suing for damages due to the fact that they were represented as rapists, abortionists, prostitutes and thieves.

Of course this is absolute nonsense and proceeding with a case like this would be a complete waste of everybody’s time. Viewers of the movie are aware that it is satire; nobody is looking at the Romanian villagers used in the film and thinking that they actually are rapists, abortionists, prostitutes and thieves. We are all well aware that what we are seeing is in fact, fictional. Just like after watching Se7en, I did not think that Kevin Spacey was actually a deranged serial killer, nor do I think that Borat is a real person, or that the villagers were the people they were said to be in the movie.

So there really is no basis at all for a law suit against the makers of the movie. However no doubt there are American lawyers who are the driving forces behind these kind of actions. Suing people is their business, the more people sue others, the more money they make. Given the apparent remoteness of the village in Romania and the apparently poverty shown there; along with the fact that none of them speak English, it is quite unlikely that the villagers concerned, have ever actually seen the movie, or even knew of its existence. It is lawyers who have gone looking for them, they are the ones who have put these ideas in their heads, they are just using them for their own benefit.

The two plaintiffs in the case are suing for THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS in damages. Tell me please how two old Romanian villagers, living on the poverty line, could possibly ever imagine having 30 million dollars? Even if they actually had a fair case to launch against the movies makers, how could they ever justify that they should be paid 30 million dollars for their suffering? It is absolute and utter rubbish and it has been fed to them by greedy American attorneys who are using them for their own means.

The Borat movie did an excellent job of showing how ignorant and foolish some Americans are, and cases like this only further enforce that fact.