Friel offers us multiple Rashomon-like perspectives: the burial of a stillborn child, and Frank's climactic encounter with a wedding party.
Todd confers this Janus-like perspective on Bess Crawford, the courageous British nurse who serves as a sleuth in these remarkable stories.
Moreover, it must accomplish both of those tasks without pretending that people are capable of stepping outside their own socially determined viewpoints to attain a God-like perspective.
You can't have a god-like perspective, looming over these suffering little people, because there's glass in the way".
Eventually, you ascend to a United Nations-like perspective as you try to unify an entire planet divided between rival civilizations.
Instead, in Jones's film it's left to another Catholic director, Scorsese, to clinch the point: the God-like perspective of Hitchcock's aerial shots induce terror.
The home scenes take place between large metal staircases on each side of the stage; the ball has a Piranesi-like perspective and a huge chandelier that revolves to become an abstract clock.
All this was executed using his superb modeling skills, a deep, painting-like perspective being achieved through the use of high relief in the foreground, grading into low relief in the background.
Bedsit Disco Queen is that most satisfying thing – a book that pulls back the veil for fans with candour and humour, while charting a social history of UK pop with Zelig-like perspective.
The changes the comically tormented siblings go through are viewed from an off-center, Fassbinder-like perspective that weaves along a circuitous path from dark comedy to melodrama to mush.
