Yet I find something disturbing in that. That means you have to read little words at the bottom of the screen to understand it. After explaining to her that I was actually literate, she let me rent the movie, and when I finally got around to watching it, it turned out to be truly enjoyable. I laughed hard at one of the most pleasant comedies I had seen in a long time. But the evening had been marred by the clerk's perception that only an idiot would attempt to watch a foreign film.
American tastes are very bland.
Hollywood caters to those tastes, but I also wonder if they aren't creating them by not offering anything more substantive. Regardless, film buffs have to increasingly look overseas to find true art on celluloid. It seems a shame to have to do that in the very country which invented movies.