That slow motion applies to the complex explosion of the heads in the scene.
There are also some of Alden's characteristic tropes – low-angled expressionist lighting, haphazard jumbles of chairs and a surreal explosion of toy animal heads in the ball scene (a note in the programme helpfully relates that to the phenomenon of "plush" parties, though not, alas, to the world of Tchaikovsky's opera or to the Pushkin story on which it's based).
Dick Cheney, best known as the mastermind behind the recent wave of head explosions, stopped by "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" to promote his new memoirs.
Tests of methane monitors at the scene of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster show that they had not been tampered with before the explosion, the head of West Virginia's mine safety program said Monday.
When police detective Alex Murphy Joel Kinnamann) is hurt in a car explosion, the head of OmniCorp sees an opportunity to change America's mind.
We used to invent a thousand catastrophes - a nudge from one of those sharp keels over head & then water roaring & boiling against the windows; and an explosion of deadly gas; a head-on-collision, hurling the cars through the walls of the tube.
Another sing-along, an explosion of confetti over our heads, and then home, in white limousines, black limousines, and subways.
Let's just hope there's never an explosion of Chihuly over Bill's head.
In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, though, the battlefield's resurrected men, remarkable though they are, are merely marvels - just as in Zodiac, when we see the slow-motion explosion of the cab driver's head, the very last thing one thinks about is the death of a human being.
Their frankness heightens the book's impact, as does its wider subject: the increasing frequency in Iraq of explosion-induced head injuries like those Bob suffered.
