Hill takes time building up his characters' rapport with one another, his essential aim being to expose the humanity in all of us.
The contradiction at the core of Ran only adds to its primal power: it's a visually magnificent film that exposes humanity at its ugliest.
This is Brecht at his most didactic, exposing a "humanity without humaneness", attacking the exploitative greed of businessmen in search of oil and demanding: "Where there's abuse, do something".
Instead, it exposes a humanity so deeply buried beneath the animal behavior we hardly believe it exists.
Speaking from each character's vantage point, she worms into their experiences -- the burn of their private humiliations, the sharpness of their righteous anger, the confusion of finding their lives changing -- and exposes the humanity below the tropes they embody.
The zombie apocalypse, always a rich vein for game- and film-makers, is this time used to expose your essential humanity, as you and three friends make a break for the last chopper to freedom.
To attempt to embody someone else's desire, no matter how puerile it might be, is how artists expose truth that humanity hides away.
When the class turned to Bouffon the counter mask of clown where the goal is to make fun of the audience and expose hypocrisy in humanity—I was on fire.
