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While I am perfectly able to enjoy films shot on video, such as Blair Witch , El Mariachi or American Movie , I also enjoy the voluptuous pleasures of great celluloid cinematography in a film like Fargo or The Double Life of Veronique .
But what we get is mostly less than meets the eye: the erudition of the cocktail party and the emotional range of a good TV sitcom, middlebrow pleasures dressed up in the trappings of high learning--modernism without difficulty.
One of the pleasures of Shanghai is to stroll Nanjing Road, long the most famous shopping avenue in China, to see what’s new and what’s old.
But mostly critics admit to enjoying the "guilty pleasures, including banzai bikini footage" (Mike Clark, USA Today ) and "babelicious lesbians" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Others wonder how the movie got away with an R rating and find it lacking even "the saving spark of low art or high camp" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Click here for the official site.)
Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions.