What Nigeria needs, even when faced with lawless brutality and violence, is a government that respects human rights and the rule of law for all.
Faced with genuine brutality, our kids find themselves exceptionally out of their depth, and Saulnier goes to town as the punks, pitted against the armed fascists, have no choice but to go primal.
But faced with unchecked brutality by special police called the Berkut — who used kidnapping, tear gas and snipers' bullets to suppress fellow Ukrainians — demonstrations in Kiev's Independence Square (known as Maidan) evolved into a spasm of nationalism.
So it turns out it was about his experience of being faced with police brutality in Calais, and how he's tried with his friends to get into the back of a lorry and the police pulled them out.
Faced with exclusion and brutality, they kept themselves alive through an unholy marriage of desperation and imagination, constructing an alternative reality that could teach the younger generation a thing or two about empowerment.
I suppose that is the sort of bluntness that comes out when one is faced with the sort of brutality that took place in Mumbai, and the sort of prevarication that followed.
Meanwhile, true cultural exchange is increasingly difficult; art and artists, already low on the US government's list of priorities, seem to be considered trinkets we can't afford to trifle with when faced with the kind of brutality we now see in the region.
Faced with scenes of fearsomely gaudy brutality (the director, Santini, tells him that "no one has seen this 'orror on screen before"), Gilderoy retreats into dreams of the pastoral English countryside, inspired by letters from his mother detailing the changing birdsong in their garden back home.
Faced with responding to athletes protesting police brutality and systemic racism, the Penguins sided with Trump.
Faced with yet another incontrovertible act of police brutality, angered viewers formed resistance groups – practically overnight – to demand justice.
