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Garrone's film, expansive as it was, now looks a mere precis for the tangled underworld politics of this mob saga, in which young, antiheroic foot soldier Ciro (Marco D'Amore) rises through the very dirty ranks of the Savastano clan.

Don't count on it – even though people buying political power makes the MPs' expenses scandal look a mere peccadillo.

He can welcome a visitor into his small, paper-piled office in the gray granite Supreme Court building here, looking a mere mortal in brown chinos and loafers instead of black robes, and so low-key in his manner that it almost seems normal to call the chief justice Jeff.

"Innocence of Muslims" looks like a mere stunt.

In retrospect even the crash of 1987 now looks like a mere blip.

But the era of urban anonymity already looks like a mere historical interlude.

Called up for service in World War I, he is rejected because, of course, he looks like a mere boy.

On the surface "The Violet Hour" looks like a mere trinket compared with "Gem of the Ocean".

Compared to that YouTube-specific scandal, the Tide Pod Challenge looks like a mere irritant.

What looks like a mere fisheye lens effect in the opening frames turns into a camera tumbling effect, the rhythm of which matches Lustman's flickering synth sounds.

Seen through that lens, the unprecedented GOP obstructionism of President Obama's nomination of D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court looks like a mere prelude to the nastiness that could come.