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Critics like this movie better than Chow's last film and say it has "a stylish patina that puts it a cut above much of the competition" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). But the story, an exploration of the line between everyday palm-greasing and real treachery, does not capture everyone's imagination.
A hotshot English theater director (his Cabaret revival is still on the boards in New York), Mendes gives the film a patina of New Age lyricism and layer upon layer of visual irony.
As the youngest member of the Four Would-Be Wise Men, he probably has the thinnest patina of wisdom.
Older pieces have the patina of age where new pieces — usually made on site — are bright and shiny.
The feeling, one assumes, is that broadcasting them, regardless of context, at times when children are listening, lends rude words a patina of approval that inures them to the corrosive atmosphere of taboo.