Critic's quote on the sleeve of Burn After Reading:"Perfectly good,but never truly great."
Now,I don't disagree. But it's not the kind of thing you usually see on DVD sleeves.
How about this gem,on the cover of The Reader:"Succeeds solely due to the performance of Kate Winslet".
Again,it's accurate,but unorthodox.
Of course,there is a serious side to all this. Piracy robs the film industry of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It also makes some dodgy characters very rich.
But Indonesians have a pretty compelling excuse to buy illegal.
"I support piracy,"one told me."Because of the censorship on official DVDs - it's really annoying."
I can attest to that. A few years ago I purchased a legitimate Indonesian copy of Brokeback Mountain. During a certain pivotal scene in a tent - when Ennis first succumbs to Jack's advances - the DVD abruptly cut to a shot of Jake Gyllenhaal's character behind the wheel of his pick-up truck,driving through the mountains.