How many frustrated kids whose only outlets for aggression are Call of Duty, sports, or hip-hop will take a disastrous step in illogic and see ISIS as the real-life evocation of those fantasies?
They might be rigorously abstract but they're also full of real-life evocations, from dream furniture and robotic skeletons to daddy longlegs petrified in their nervy flittering.
Bill Young shows his choreographic fondness for high-energy movements in works ranging from a commentary on the nonstop intensity of today's urban life to an evocation of a totally imaginary faraway realm.
They are clearly proud of this son who has lived such an exotic life, and the evocation of these emotions is one of the best parts of the film.
The island, meanwhile, comes to life through vivid evocations of its landscape and its creatures: huge squirrels, terrifying birds and slumbering sea-lions.
Frequently light, worldly, and hedonistic and making few pretensions to intellectual profundity, it yet covers a wide range of subjects and emotions, ranging from lyrics inspired by rural life to wistful evocations of life and love's evanescence and fleeting beauty.
His descriptions of the Cuban landscape are elegant and seductive, and he brings the village to life with sensory evocations of eagle feathers, linden tea, sickle bushes, coconut rind and maracas.
Recent winners of the award include a study of music in the 20th century, a biography of cancer and last year's winner, Colin Barrett's lyrical evocation of life in small-town Ireland, Young Skins.
The film is a kaleidoscopic evocation of life in several cities, notably a sunlit Odessa, and to judge by the film life in the late-20s USSR seems to have been a fairly jolly affair, although it wouldn't be once the next decade got under way.
We already have "Turtles Can Fly," a sharp evocation of life in the Kurdish territories, set in 2004.
Larson's vivid evocation of life inside early submarines, the omnipresent danger, the Christmas lunches and dachshund puppies, never flags.
