In order to keep going at all, this movie becomes devoted to awkward, literal plot devices — getting Val across the set, keeping inquisitive people away from him.
Algorithms are a bit like the recipes we use in cooking, but they need to be much more precise because they have to be implemented by stupid, literal-thinking devices called computers.
But since this is a show about murder, the troubleshooting is literal, and the device in question is a harpoon gun.
By contrast there is so much "there" for Varda to rediscover in her own history that the film overflows with people and places, their place in her life rendered through a variety of cinematic devices, literal and poetic, including interviews, fantasy sequences, clips from her old films and sometimes comedic reconstructions.
But the genius of the design is the combination of names with Minimalist sculpture: Ms. Lin recognized and exploited the inherent theatricality and ambiguity of Minimalist abstraction, linking it with the most literal kind of descriptive device, a list, which represents every person who died not through some generalized image of a soldier holding a gun or a flag but specifically, by name.
Given that context, expanding into physical retailers represents an opportunity to build on that launch quarter and reach consumers who might not have otherwise known about, or indeed come into literal contact with, the device.
Think of the self-satisfaction sesh as your own little personal protest against established religion trying to keep your genitals behind bars (if not literal ones like this device, then metaphorical ones, at least).
So just keep that idea in mind next time you're getting ready to flog the bishop or tweak the queen: Think of the self-satisfaction sesh as your own little personal protest against established religion trying to keep your genitals behind bars (if not literal ones like this device, than at least metaphorical ones).
And yet the EU Copyright Directive and US laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act make it a literal crime to "jailbreak" devices, to install your own software on them, to reverse-engineer the software on them and discover hidden vulnerabilities that might be putting you at risk.
Devices whose literal positioning on our bodies enables them to gather far more intimate data on the lives and (physical) habits of users than previous generations of consumer mobiles.
