And it was cruelly exposed.
When Pam turns down his ideas, Andy suspects that Pam might be acting controlling and cruelly to Jim, in the same way Angela Angela Kinseyy) treated Andy.
Punctuated with terrifying (albeit controlled) explosions, choking smoke storms, and impressionistic images of fractured landscapes, "Behemoth" seems to shudder with the destructive power of invisible, ubiquitous, and cruelly indifferent authority.
Raven learned to control her reactions, but the situation came to a cruelly ironic head on her school's official No Bullying day.
You could recast it with the ballet stars of "The Red Shoes" or "The Tales of Hoffmann" movies: Sean Suozzi plays Robert Helpmann portraying an innocent abroad caught up in a series of cruelly changing visions and magically fatal changes of garb; Sara Mearns gets the Ludmilla Tcherina role as the controlling embodiment of worldly sophistication.
In a last-ditch effort to control the political messaging in the tax fight, Democrats accused the Republicans of favoring the rich over the middle class, of cruelly holding up an extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, and of pursuing bad economic policies that contributed to the recent recession.
One patient stated: "Sometimes for fun, it slackens its grip and I think that it has gone forever, only for it to cruelly re-assert its control over me and I gasp for breath once more".
Then there were the awful photographs of Liverpool football fans cruelly pressed against the crowd-control fences of Hillsborough: surely those people couldn't be dying on that spring afternoon?
Lanzmann reminds us that, as the interview proceeded, the barber, pressed almost cruelly by Lanzmann to go on speaking, began to lose control over his emotions.
It probably does; a single outburst, in which Landy snatches a hamburger from Wilson's lips, berating him as cruelly as his father ever did, followed by Landy's explanation of his duties ("I am the control"), gives us pretty much all we need to know, yet there is plenty more controlling in store.
Each time, those preparations are interrupted by a carousel of close colleagues and family members, who combine to reveal Jobs as bullying, pig-headed, control-obsessed, Machiavellian and morally deficient – especially when it comes to his daughter, Lisa, whom Jobs cruelly refuses to acknowledge.
