this film released this year, is again a political satire,Again it has caused some controversy, all critics agree that this is a provocative film, it is all the usual things, racist, sexist, etc but the edge is lost somehow by the fact that Sacha Baron Cohen is of course now so well known that there is really no humour in this anymore for me, same old jokes, different characters, though of course up to date and even though I didn’t think it was great, it did make me laugh, in a guilty sort of way! The main character is loosely based on Gaddafi, the recent Libyan dictator, and footage of Sarkosy and Hillary Clinton talking about Gaddafi as though talking about this fascistic dictator from northern Africa. Throughout this and his other films, there are lots of anti- Semitic comments and footage, and I think that perhaps this is seen to be ok as Sacha Baron Cohen is himself Jewish, but this must be flawed eh? I think that this kind of assumes that the people watching are of the same mind as you, but of course you can’t assume that, and while it is ridiculous to think that this kind of blatant satire could somehow make people think it was ok to be anti jewish, anti women etc, it is not a risk I would want to take, there are enough crazy people out there that will see this kind of film as somehow making it ok to tell dodgy and offensive jokes. Where to draw the line eh…