As Tan's photo-realistic sepia graphics take us into a new world – mystifying yet oddly familiar – The Arrival offers a haunting and timeless insight into the migrant experience.
Woolf's haunting language, her prescient insights into wide-ranging historical, political, feminist, and artistic issues, and her revisionist experiments with novelistic form during a remarkably productive career altered the course of Modernist and postmodernist letters.
Marx's other insight into economic development raises an altogether more haunting spectre for Chinese elites.
It kicked off with some truly haunting imagery, and furious battle scenes, but finally offered little new insight into the play except that it was a bit like Game of Thrones, really.
The British baritone Simon Keenlyside is stunning in the title role, singing with elegance and piercing insight, and embodying the tormented, self-doubting character in a physically restless and haunting portrayal.
I may have given the impression that this is harrowing, and it is; but it has its moments of great, consoling insight, is about far more than just the Holocaust and in its own haunting way provides comfort for the afflicted, for anyone who has ever thought, if only for a moment, with Calderón, that "Man's greatest crime is to be born".
The dour aesthetic of Lucas Pope's Papers, Please, which casts you as an immigration officer working at the border of a fictional country in 1982, provides insight into an aspect of the era that games just didn't tackle before: the haunting experience of refugees displaced by the likes of the Soviet-Afghan War and the Salvadoran Civil War.
His vision of violent conspiracies and vengeance à la Tarantino is haunting but flimsy, and he substitutes moody and roving closeups of Jakab whether her face or the back of her head for psychological insight and narrative substance.
And he began to realise, with a mixture of conceptual insight and lingering emotional attachment, that it required little or no artistic intervention beyond his first excision of the haunting fragment.
But there is nonetheless something haunting about this film, a sense of desperation and defeat that seems less like a generic convention than like a genuine insight, an intuition into what can happen at the crossroads of lust, loneliness and materialism.
