“Borat,” December 15, 2006, theater. What can I say about this Sasha Barron Cohen Rorschach Test? It is outrageous, offensive, absurd, antitracist, hysterical (there’s a wrestling scene to die for or from), brilliant, mean spirited, sly, disgusting, and worth seeing all at once. Cohen’s alter ego, Borat, is the 6th best known TV news anchor in Kazahkstan. He comes to America with his chicken, his vial of gypsy tears to ward off AIDS, and his producer to study and learn more about America. His sexism and anti-semitism are palpable. The scenes at the rodeo, the Confederate chachka shop, Hollywood, and a rv trip with three middle class white kids are simply classics. His over the top crudeness is straight out of the Middle Ages and is a joke about American provincialism as much as it is an attack on some ‘backward’ peoples. Bronwen hated it, I found it left me breathless and feeling astoundingly conflicted. Still, it’s a must see.