It may seem that when a Fifa poster is subverted by adding a gun and a spreading smear of blood, this is a warning that real social unrest is about to overturn football's biggest moment.
The real-life unrest was filmed on the spot, and the film's cinema-verité approach was closely studied by aspiring film-makers.
Zabriskie Point created its own docu-surrealism by casting non-professional unknowns and meshing real campus-unrest footage with experimental waywardness.
Besson throws some glib political subtextuality into the mix (the government has abandoned the ghettos), capitalising upon the real-life unrest which recently made international news.
The decision was "all the more curious" because Mr. Nazarbayev seemed to face no real threat of civil unrest, said Sarah Michaels, deputy director of analysis at Oxford Analytica, a global analysis and advisory form.
To the Editor: Your report of recent arrests in Western Sahara does not convey the real cause of social unrest and instability there: Morocco's illegal occupation; its violation of human rights; its theft of the territory's natural resources; and the socioeconomic disenfranchisement of the Saharawi people.
David Ledford, executive editor and vice president of Gannett's News Journal in Wilmington, Del., and president of Associated Press Managing Editors, doesn't believe there will be an exodus of papers from AP. "The unrest is real," Ledford says.
These wars provided employment, income, and glory for the average Plebeian, and the sense of patriotism that resulted from these wars also eliminated any real threat of Plebeian unrest.
For instance, he said he wouldn't have flown a reporter to Ferguson, Missouri, in August to cover the unrest in real time alongside a flock of other journalists.
Exiles and many rights groups trace the real cause of the unrest to China's heavy-handed policies, including suppressing the open practice of Islam and the culture and language of the Uighurs.
