The French writer Bernard-Henri Lévy recalled his friend Mr. Robbe-Grillet as "a master at conveying human misunderstanding".
The most fascinating thing about the story is how it dramatises the way human misunderstanding and human fallibility can have a disastrous effect on world affairs.
Keep in mind that you may just be misreading their body language or tone — the workplace is certainly not immune to human misunderstanding and no one's a mind reader.
Since 1973, she had been based in the Westphalian city of Wuppertal, surrounded by a tight-knit troupe of performers who, for more than three decades in some cases, followed wherever her vision led, into ghostly territories of memory and loss (Café Müller), flower-strewn battlefields of human misunderstanding (Nelken), surreal nightmares of murder and rape (Seven Deadly Sins, The Rite of Spring).
The film is another of Farhadi's characteristically thoughtful morality plays stemming from a series of dangerous, all-too-human misunderstandings: A woman in Tehran lets a man into her apartment, mistaking him for her husband; the accidental encounter leaves deep physically and psychological scars, awakening in her husband a wholly understandable yet all-consuming desire for revenge.
Coren also elucidates common human-canine misunderstandings.
And, while some of them were made with good intentions, the algorithms encode human prejudice, misunderstanding, and bias into automatic systems that increasingly manage our lives.
It feels so deeply complicated to me; so rooted in thousands of years of violence, human error and misunderstandings and yet so simple; dead beloveds at the hands of murderers.
Even as it settles its main concerns, it floats new ideas (was golden boy Carl the young Karl Benz?), and emphasises latent themes (the greater love between parents and children; the endless human capacity for misunderstanding).
And once again, this quietly daring show about the grave desire to feel human in a misunderstanding world was lauded by critics as the musical not to be missed.
"It wasn't until the middle of the 20th century that we really even understood how pregnancy happens, so we have to overcome thousands of years of human confusion and misunderstanding about pregnancy," Eig said.
