The two faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: actor and buffoon

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The British showman of two recitals of his peculiar and histrionic style in the sequel to Borat and in The Trial of the 7 in Chicago

It may or may not be a coincidence, but the fact is that the last two films starring the British Sacha Baron Cohen,

on Amazon Prime Video and

have been released on digital platforms, practically at the same time.

on Netflix.

In both, the showman makes his innate talents as an actor clear and invites to ask the million dollar question: Is Baron Cohen an actor or a buffoon?

The answer is more than obvious, both.

In the first of the two films, he takes up the character that brought him world fame in 2006, that reporter from Kazakhstan who filmed an educational documentary about the United States and ended up bringing to light the miseries of the North American colossus ... while putting fashionable the phosphor green triquini.

The sequel begins with Borat in prison after having fallen out of favor with his government and who is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by returning to the United States to deliver a present, specifically a monkey, to Donald Trump.

As Trump is pissed off with him after he defecated in the garden of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in the first installment, he decides that the recipient of the gift will be his vice president, Mike Pence.

In his mission, he will have the invaluable help of his daughter, Tutar.

When he arrives in America, Borat realizes that everything is going to be more complicated than the first time, because people recognize him on the street and even take selfies with him.

This allows Baron Cohen, as if it were a Kazakh Mortadelo, to disguise himself in a thousand and one ways throughout the film and commit all kinds of outrages and mischief, giving a new dimension to the expression of the absence of a sense of ridicule.

Meanwhile, it takes reactionary politicians, corrupt and sexual harassers, anti-abortionists, ultrareligious fanatics and intolerant ladies of great lineage and rancid lineage, to end up offering its own explanation about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

As the format of the film is that of a mockumentary, Baron Cohen has the pleasure of acting not acting, of playing a character that is more than a character a transcript of himself, and above all of releasing his lowest instincts in some eschatological moments that, the truth, are quite dispensable.

That is, he plays the buffoon at will and, as a good buffoon, gets the audience to laugh and become aware of certain realities that, told in a less satirical way, would be difficult not only to digest but, directly, to accept.

Baron Cohen characterized as a sixties hippy.

The Chicago 7th Trial

, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, creator of

, is much more serious but equally demanding and committed.

In addition to one of the best films that have been released in 2020. Baron Cohen plays one of the seven defendants of the title, a hippy against the Vietnam War who was tried for the riots that occurred during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago and that he faced a trial that turned out to be a pantomime orchestrated by the Richard Nixon government.

Here the Englishman demonstrates his chameleon skills and his varied registers, because he is able to go from drama to farce in a matter of seconds, a bit in line with what he did in

, considered his best performance to date.

In fact, at almost 50 years old he is capable of putting himself into the skin of a character in his twenties and that we believe it without question.

Once again, the actor and the jester go inexorably hand in hand.

Because, although some use the term somewhat derogatory, a great jester must, necessarily, be a great actor.

And Sacha Baron Cohen is both.

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