In contrast to Bertram, Beth is introduced against the backdrop of domestic chaos.
It's yet another movie about the fraternal disorder of the police, in which a gaggle of brothers, professionally sworn to enforce the law and tribally committed to one another, weep and rage and recriminate against a backdrop of urban chaos.
"Against this backdrop of deepening chaos and the absolute lack of the rule of law, then a charismatic and articulate individual has risen to the level of leadership," said Bruce Bagley, an expert on the conflict at the University of Miami who is worried about a deepening conflict if the paramilitary forces gain political support.
"I knew I had captured a 'moment' when I snapped the still forms against the backdrop of such chaos but it wasn't until later when I returned to the rink to file my photos that my editor pointed out that the two people were not hurt, but kissing".
Joshua Estrin: You seem to have found a way to create a work/life balance against the backdrop of glorious chaos.
Honk Kong has become the backdrop to scenes of chaos in recent days with demonstrators jamming busy roads and battling with security forces wielding pepper-spray.
With the long-running show "Les Misérables" safely in mothballs, the niche is wide open for a tuneful epic of injustice and retribution played out against the backdrop of France in chaos.
Against a backdrop of flaming urban chaos, replete with smoking rubble and listing skyscrapers, plunging jetliners and racing police cars, panicked businessmen stumbled forward, blood on their collars, horror in their eyes, while high above them loomed a guardian angel.
Against a broader backdrop of accelerating political chaos and routine mass shootings including one that left 13 dead in Thousand Oaks, where the Saxtons took refuge, just hours before the Woolsey fire forced residents to evacuate an increasingly dystopian reality loomed.
Against this backdrop of civil war, economic chaos and official corruption, a humanitarian crisis is being played out.
