Sasha Baron Cohen is one of those people it's natural to love and hate. Who knows if he's a great dinner guest or husband, anyone with that much bile in their comedy just has to be a nasty piece of work in some part of their life.
But it's good to put those considerations to one side when watching a movie like The Dictator. If you consider even one of the jokes about race, religion, physical characteristics, terrorism, children, or sex to be offensive, chances are it will ruin the whole experience.
I'd heard in one review how you could hear a pin drop as the first of those jokes came out, and it was only as the film developed that people found it possible to laugh. There was no such breaking in period required last night, as the audience took all Cohen had to offer, and laughed themselves silly.
Haffaz Alladeen is the wacky dictator of the oil-rich African nation
of Waadeya. But not so wacky that he's at a loss for words when the situation allows for some healthy criticism of American politics.
When addressing the United Nations council, Alladeen extolls the virtue of his dictatorship by telling the UN "Just think, if you had a dictatorship in America, you'd be able to give your closest friends senior positions in government; you'd be able to reward the bad judgement of business people by forgiving them when they messed up, even giving them millions of dollars to do it all again; you'd be able to put people of one color into prison without anyone complaining ....."
Surprise, surprise, all of these things are done in America.
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