Without making politics explicit, the ambient menace of cavalierly imposed power is made clear in scenes of police stops of young black male drivers.
It's funny, but, by treating it as a gag, Hynes fails to explore the transference of power in the scene, or to show us how Pato and his masculinity are undone by the strength of Maureen and Mag's shared contempt.
They noted the symbolism of power in the two contrasting scenes of the video.
They accused him of allowing Islamists to monopolise the political scene, concentrating power in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The floating platform is anchored 13 miles offshore from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the scene of earthquake, tsunami and reactor meltdown disasters in March 2011.
Once the Nazis come to power in Austria, however, the scenes of storm-trooper depredation can't avoid a standard-issue feeling and remind us that Curtis' earlier "My Week With Marilyn" felt similarly pro forma despite another strong lead performance, in this case from Oscar-nominated Michelle Williams.
For there is no denying the power of the scenes in the monster's den, thanks in large part to Tomlinson's chilling creation of the taxing title role, pawing the ground before moving in for the kill, wailing as he does so.
If there are no scenes of comparable power in Mr. Bergman's less assured "Maria Stuart," it is nonetheless fascinating to see him apply the same sensibility to Schiller's acutely drawn study in passionate politics.
It even has a weird, sort of Expressionist power in its mad, jerky party scenes.
Quickly depleting her scant savings, she makes the rounds to friends and colleagues, duns people who've long owed her money, contacts her ex-husband (macho and vindictive), and — in a scene of agonized power — pushes her way through the gates and into the home of a local grandee in search of alms.
