Environmental disaster; corporate takeover; a global psychological coma: "Wall-E" starts to seem like "An Inconvenient Cartoon".
Since Springs lapsed into the coma, Walls has spread himself thin covering his and Springs's appointment books.
"A woman was in a coma when the wall fell and awoke days later," he noted, recalling a news account, "and a village in the East rebuilt a small wall in the early 90's to recreate their own world".
Wolfgang Becker's reunification tale, about a woman who falls into a coma just before the Berlin wall comes down and wakes up eight months later, had a bittersweet magic to it: a small human story illuminating a massive historical event.
But for all the obvious differences, I still remember my thrill of recognition, of collegiality, on encountering a Glasgow Coma Scale poster on the wall of a clinic - almost identical to the one in my home hospital, in my medical textbook, in my lectures.
Her characters murder their husbands, or abuse their wives, or sometimes, when they're sweetly in love, have to knock through a wall of their coma-stricken sister's hospital room to make their amateur sex dungeon bigger ("It's what she would have wanted").
In the comic German movie "Goodbye, Lenin," Katrin Sass, right, plays an East German woman who goes into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Ms. Sass, 45, has received critical acclaim for her portrayal in the film of an East German who goes into a coma and misses the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
If the lack of drama and the glacial play put you in a coma, go back and watch this one shot, off the wall at 17 by Miguel ngel Jim z.
Then came the 2007 car crash that kept him submerged in an induced coma for 11 days, followed the next year by the crash on Wall Street, which had much the same effect on the state's economy.
San Martin de Burzaco defender Ortega, 21, died in hospital after failing to come out of a coma following injuries when he hit his head on a concrete wall surrounding the pitch.
