Bernadett Szél, MP and co-leader of a small Green liberal party, cites the events in Kishantos and Budapest as a prime example of the "endless cynicism" of the prime minister and his party, Fidesz, whose actions and policies set him apart in the European Union, and are setting off alarm bells in Brussels and Washington.
Around the random murders, the film hones in on Berlin's melancholy, a landscape of puddles and prostitutes, a silent city – the hush broken by bells or shrieks, the tap-tap of a tool being sharpened, and haunted by the killer's eerie whistling of Grieg's "In the Hall of The Mountain King".
She's also one of the few pop stars who work just as well without all the sonic bells and whistles.
When ministers receive an invitation to appear on a new, live, satirical comedy show on Channel 4, it's understandable if alarm bells start ringing.
What the government doesn't mention, though, is that the bells and whistles of a retail offer – the discounts and loyalty bonuses – are a cost to the public purse.
While Argentina rang with celebratory church bells at the news of the first Latin American pope, some were seized by doubt and confusion.
One particularly triumphalist message doing the rounds across Belfast and beyond has a festive feel to it: "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, the union flag has gone missing, the Huns smashed up the town as the crown rag came down, walking in a Fenian wonderland".
It reflected a book-learned view of unregulated market power which failed to ring her alarm bells as Scargill's primitive notions of class struggle did, and was just as naïve.
"Expert advice is relevant no matter what the time of year, so this rings warning bells for me".
"The thing that surprised me the most," Charlie Hebdo's editor-in-chief Gérard Biard told an audience on Tuesday morning, "was the bells of Notre-Dame that rang for us".
Such job descriptions as "magician and children's entertainer" should have set alarm bells ringing.
