What's more, it's a repeated motif.
There are references to concentration camps and a repeated motif of vampires being dragged behind trucks.
In a repeated motif, they sank onto one leg, their knees appearing almost to collapse, while the other leg opened from the hip.
The repeated motif of "Kandahar" is the flimsy new plastic and wooden legs made for the many who have lost their limbs to land mines.
Their borders are incised with an obsessively repeated motif -- the name of Allah -- that allies these diaristic works to sacred texts.
There's flow and counterflow, and a repeated motif, like a surfer in a barrelling swell, of one dancer's leg sweeping over the crouching form of another.
Her own taste runs toward refined elegance: patterns of stripes or circles, and pottery collections with a single repeated motif.
"The appeal is in the mysticism of the painting, and the mystery of who did it, who is he?" The oils, all dated 1934, are sweeping, futuristic urban scenes with a repeated motif of airplanes landing on buildings.
In one repeated motif she mimes throwing a stone, only to arc her body backward and around violently, as if the forces she is battling have swatted her away like a nettlesome fly.
A repeated motif of Eggleston's are bright dresses or hair screened behind milky, frosted glass or shop windows, hinting at desire, at the intangible.
There's certainly plenty of action, orchestrated by fight-movie maestro Yuen Wof-ping, of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger renown, but Wong slathers it with applied stylistic devices: thundering rain, splintering glass, a buttery sepia colour wash and a rather odd repeated motif of sliding slippered feet.
