By creating a provocative filmic world in its own right, it gives itself a great deal of intellectual credibility to discuss Kubrick's.
And your "video play" has a very provocative backdrop: a world map with the United States at the very center.
On October 22 the President informed the nation of the crisis and called on Khrushchev to pull back from "this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace".
Lately, however, Russia appears to be promoting a less provocative view of World War II in order to soften relations with some of its critics.
Kennedy also called upon his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, to "halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace".
One stone is carved with the provocative statement, "The world has been empty since the Romans," attributed to the French revolutionary Louis-Antoine-Léon Saint-Just.
In a subsequent book with the provocative title The World Is Flat he updated the thesis to the proposition that two countries with manufacturing industries which were part of the supply chain of giant companies such as Apple, Toyota, Dell and Cisco could no longer afford go to war with each other either.
A few years ago the celebrated Chinese artist was a well-established figure in the international and domestic art worlds; provocative, certainly, but respectable enough to co-design the Olympic Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing and be covered by Chinese state media.
Let's not linger on all the bummer stuff like the Syrian civil war and the divisive US presidential campaign, and instead breeze past to this July, when a 30-something Korean man demonstrated an unsettling and provocative dance to the world.
Each week in Bookends, two writers take on pressing and provocative questions about the world of books.
