And so, since commercial flights have all been grounded, she and Dodge set out on a road trip through New Jersey and Delaware, an odyssey that evokes "War of the Worlds," "Mad Max and Haroldld & Kumar Go to White Castle".
The set (designed by Mimi Lien) evokes war with a fence upstage, framing the dancers' movements, but also illustrating a boundary.
In this translation by the estimable John Cullen, Wallner is capable of writing with spare elegance, and he evokes war-ravaged Paris with a deft touch.
The subsequent scenes -- of rape, of mutilation by machete, of feral child soldiers -- represent a collage of recent real-world African atrocities, evoking wars in places like Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan.
Otello and his men wear uniforms that vaguely evoke Civil War soldiers, or perhaps Victorian imperialist military forces.
They evoke the war with varying degrees of directness, moving out from the center like ripples from a stone.
The film's before-and-after pictures of joyful, carefree young men reduced to haunted, hollow-eyed skeletons covered with the lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma evoke World War II photos of concentration camp prisoners.
7 P.M. (BBC America) NORTH AND SOUTH -- To American viewers, this title may evoke Civil War images, but it really refers to 19thcentury England's great social and geographical divide.
With "Sucker Punch," his first movie not based on pre-existing material, he runs wild through the dank corridors of a gothic mental hospital, the velvety rooms of a high-end bordello and combat landscapes that evoke World War I, samurai epics and science-fiction futurism.
"The country evokes corruption, war, the Taliban.
