That helps to lend the portrait animation, the illusion of hand action at the very centre of the canvas.
The film is structured like a suspense story: jump-cut editing gives the illusion of accelerated action, and recreations show how the terrorists entered the Israeli residence and how one Israeli, Gad Zabari, escaped.
One of his biographers, William Walsh, wrote of his narrative as a comedic art with an inclusive vision informed by the transience and illusion of human action.
"Having Geno in there as opposed to another quarterback, you could get the illusion of play-action and get those linebackers and safeties to bite on the run," Jake Spavital, Smith's quarterbacks coach at West Virginia, said in a telephone interview.
The music is equally kinetic, and creates the illusion of driving the action on the stage, although both sound and vision are entirely abstract.
Maybe it's a valid worry, that our emotional reaction to a news story gives us the comforting illusion of having taken action, thus freeing us from the burden of taking to the streets in protest, collecting donations or even voting.
The idea that women have free choice about how to give birth is an illusion when one course of action becomes validated as morally correct.
Having spent much of his career exposing the illusion of copyright law's action, Lawrence Lessig's current work in institutional corruption probes the decisions of institutions who gamble public trust on failed wars and special interests.
