The somewhat preposterous consequence of this arrangement is that the news media rely heavily if not exclusively on the embargoed press releases in choosing stories to cover: perhaps because the embargo gives them time to prepare a good story but more compellingly because each news outlet realises all its competitors will run one.
And each time the Mumbaikar realises, too late, that buried under this false praise he has been cheated of a secure life yet again.
Meanwhile, his domestic imbroglio – living with two sisters, played by Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon, with whom he has had a daughter each – becomes a nightmare as he realises that this is a household made up of women who hate him.
He realises that the animals love each other, but not him.
The films are anything but linear, and when one sees them in one great all-together-now performance one realises how circular they are, each sweeping into the next.
Karl realises that Sunny and Zeke like each other and he tries to keep them apart.
Partly it's the restrained, unhurried step of Schubert's piano trio, partly it's Marisa Berenson enigmatic loveliness as Lady Lyndon; it's the depths hinted at in each surface gesture, how she looks all but ill as she realises she's falling in love with him, how she distances herself in order to come closer.
Six decades later, Castro realises that people now text pictures of the woman to each other whenever there's a two-for-one ice cream offer at Lidl.
Unfortunately, this is a very hit-and-miss mechanic to begin with, as prompts ultimately come too late to instigate a reversal; it's up to the player to learn each opponent's tells and jab that shoulder button before the console realises what's coming.
When said helicopters, having arrived, crash into each other, wiping out all crew, emergency supplies and equipment with them, Brian realises he has no choice but to die.
