Guilty pleasures are for me an essential part of my life. Songs like November Rain, Total Eclipse Of The Heart, Wonderful Tonight, Holiday, When The Smoke Is Going Down, Don't You (Forget About Me), films like Female Vampire, Adventureland, Spaceballs, Friday The 13th, Blade II, Earth Girls Are Easy and bands like Boney M, Abba, Earth, Wind And Fire and some few Lady Gaga's songs, make my day brighter, lighter and more humorous. I never understood people that seem to think that everything in life is always serious. I can't seem to comprehend how some people go from Tom Waits to Michelangelo Antonioni and from Miles Davis to Ingmar Bergman. Fun is needed in life. Naivete and silliness have a clear place in our life and the ones that don't seem to get that are doomed in a life of misery and constant problem. In order to fully get and appreciate the heaviness of an artistic project you must firstly enjoy the lightness of another. And I very well know that some people will think of me as a shallow idiot for saying those things about art, but I don't mind at all the characterization. I prefer shallow idiot, than sophisticated unhappy.
When I first saw Superbad I can admit that it tested at some points my guilty pleasure threshold. Generally Seth Rogen's and Evan Goldberg's writings of comedies test my threshold quite often. Sometimes (more often) in a good way and sometimes (less often) in a bad one. Truth is that I'm not sure what to say about that movie. It's definitely something, that's for sure. Meaning that you don't forget what you just saw. It's like every guilty thought of a teenager and every guilty action of a teenager is pictured in the movie in the most graphic and bold way possible. Ultimately I think that it's for the best. The things that the film is trying to say and communicate are at the right side of the river, if there is such a thing as "right side". But I can say with ease that the movie flirts openly with sexism, stupidity, immaturity and a sense of an utter depravity. For most people that is a shit movie, hands down. But we don't care for the opinion of most people. We care for the ones that can see behind the "insulting" joke and behind the "obscene" facade of the movie. Humor is a nasty thing, not a pleasant one, that's the number one rule of substantial comedy.
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