Carmen Meets Borat

It wasn't easy watching this documentary. I had a feeling that this film wasn’t going to do any justice for the town. If anything it made their situation worse and even more humiliating. The only good thing that came out of this documentary was that their stories were heard. While that may be great, it’s not going to stop filmmakers from scamming people because in reality where there is a place to make money, money will be made no matter how wrong it might be. I mean the world is unfair, clearly. While I found it interesting that the people of the town were tricked into filming a documentary and were given little to no pay solely for the films own benefit, I was not surprised. I think we all knew that something shady had to be going on in Borat but did't think much of it for our own amusement. It was heartbreaking to see the people of that town stripped of their dignity especially with the father who worked so hard and entrusted the towns hope to redeem its identity. Although we all wanted to see the town get compensated for the global humiliation they encountered in Borat, we knew that there was little to no chance a small town was going to win a lawsuit against a corporate giant like 20th Century Fox. Although this documentary set out to relieve the town of such embarrassment from Borat, I believe the film achieved the complete opposite. It was terrible to see the men from the town enter into 20^th Century and be denied like children on such a serious matter. The whole filming of the sequence when the lawyer just sat back and watch them get take the hit was just too real to witness. The films crosscut images between Borat and their town made the humiliation worse. It depicted the town as if it’s a tourist destination in a negative way. I mean the viewers already know that the towns from Borat, the film doesn't have to reiterate the similarities. I feel like the edits further clouded their already misinterpreted identity. This documentary was a complete failure in achieving fairness. The film ends with the lawyer never coming back to fulfill his promise helplessly leaving the town in further misery.