"The Last Bolshevik" is about the power of images to reveal and to lie, and about the insidious effect of images on those who make them, whether innocently (as Medvedkin mostly did) or more calculatingly.
He concluded: "The most insidious feature of these images is that they were intended for consumption by children, part of their socialisation into the adult world of race relations.
With The Matrix (1999), they made a startlingly kinetic dystopian mind-bender about a society – not entirely unlike ours – in which people had to unplug from an insidious network of false images to see reality.
Wellness is a multi-billion dollar industry in Asia, but behind its zen and wholesome image is an insidious truth.
Prcic shows us the chaos of his character's unreliable mind, the insidious ways television and movie images usurp his memory, and the impossibility of his finding a narrative to solve his experience.
Basically a manifestation of pure evil, the Sith Lord's brief but insidious film stint was so haunting, his image has reached further than just the "Star Wars" universe.
In short, fear of nuclear war drove home images of radiation as an insidious contamination that was uniquely deadly on a global scale.
"It is powerful obsessive stuff, intensely theatrical, not always disciplined but always wildly poetic, full of stage images and utterances replete with insidious suggestiveness".
But the steps that he is taking to remake Cambodian culture in his own image are perhaps an even more insidious form of control.
In sharp contrast to the pro-Reagan hymn Prouder, Stronger, Better, this ingenious, insidious ad paired a pulsing soundtrack with sinister, ambiguous images of a grizzly wandering around the woods.
