The often witty McSweeney’s gives us an article titled:
REVIEWS OF DVDS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE PIRATED BUT WERE DEFINITELY BOUGHT ON THE STREET IN SHANGHAI FOR ABOUT A DOLLAR.

Team America: World Police
Obtained: Yan An pedestrian overpass
Price: 10 RMB, but came with a coupon for “Half Off Double Happy Massage at DragonWing Men Club for Men”

Amateur work throughout. We can see the edges of the bag in which the camera is hidden. But there’s also an unintentional artistry here that adds welcome layers of complexity.

As Team America blows Egypt apart, the silhouette of a man in a cowboy hat looms in front of us in the theater. He’s probably just going for popcorn, but his exiting archetypal shadow plays like a sharp rebuke to the frontier justice being meted out on the screen.