The story's many twists and coincidences are handled almost casually, and the movie's atmosphere of melancholy elegance nearly overwhelms both its emotions and its political themes.
Many things, actually, and here is one: almost without exception they were made to be in contact with the human body, to be worn or carried, instrumentally handled or casually caressed, first by the artist who created them, then by the person or people to whom they were given, sold or provisionally entrusted.
The poor courier just took it out and casually handled it with little regard for its demise.
"Modern" risks included plagiarising an academic paper, casually handling chemicals in a lab, and not updating the virus-protection software on your computer.
Wagner Moura plays Captain Nascimento, an anti-hero in the Dirty Harry mould who suffocates gang members with a plastic bag until they bleed during interrogation, threatens to rape a teenager with a broom handle and casually orders the killing of a look-out when he's finished questioning him.
Obama's campaign team have handled the news of his family's slaving past a bit more casually and a lot less emotionally, issuing a statement saying such a family background was 'representative of America'.
Yet Matsui handles the scrutiny as casually as he orders rainbow sprinkles with his vanilla cone.
Hathaway, who has a gift for these troubled, sarcastic roles ("Rachel Getting Married"), handles the part the casually assured way that Selina handles the world.
Our finds were nothing more than casually discarded rubbish, but there was still something thrilling about touching a piece of history, holding something in the palm of my hand that was last handled by another human thousands of years ago.
