But what makes your heart truly drop in your chest is when he comes across a pair of elderly women – one of whom introduces herself as a survivor of the Holocaust.
By the end of the interaction, the whole situation winds up actually being incredibly beautiful, as the survivor’s natural response to hate is demonstrating love.
Still, it doesn’t make any of the preceding moments any less shocking.
Borat gets away with a lot of horrible anti-Semitic behavior and rhetoric because of the fact that Sacha Baron Cohen is personally Jewish, but even that rationality gets tested to the extreme in Borat 2 when the eponymous journalist decides to visit a synagogue.