Many people diagnosed with terminal illness report gaining a valuable sense of perspective, a realisation of what is important to them and what is not.
Naturally the scriptwriters could have used more wordy dialogue to relay the sense of bafflement, then realisation, then astonishment felt by the pair as they trace the course of a bullet from outside an apartment window, into a victim's head and then into the door of a fridge.
The attendees are exceptionally diverse in age, race, attire, etc., but while the audience seems to have its fair share of skeptics and curious outsiders, most of the participants seem to be seekers of one sort or another, people eager to consume spiritual experiences to achieve some sense of connection or realisation.
His new sense of urgency reflects the realisation that the tougher rules big financial firms now face mean GE cannot make much money.
Doomed at the edges, shot through with that sense of basic futility, the realisation that no matter how much stuff you buy, somehow it's never quite the right stuff, that it is, in the end, simply stuff.
Now there is again a sense of public outrage, a growing realisation that the nice, clean-cut, honest bloke who is our prime minister has brazenly lied to us, this time in obedience to an agenda formulated by the neo- conservatives of Washington.
One of the things you come away from the film with, apart from a dizzying sense of déjà vu, is the realisation that it is a brave man who tries to salvage his directorial reputation with a romantic farce set on a leaky boat.
Suddenly this realisation made sense of a lot of things I'd done in my life and drove me to find out as much as I could about the illness.
In 2009 Rock, Paper, Shotgun said, "The sense of sorrow comes from the realisation that there's nothing like [Bloodlines] on the horizon ... why should there be so few games like this? Oh right, because it's so very hard to do ... the lack of games comparable to Bloodlines is one of the great tragedies of our time".
Such was the embarrassment of my host that he immediately jumped to my defence, nobly attempting to clarify the difference between the concept of a great monolith in the sky and a sense of personal empowerment and self-realisation that a less developed mind would in a previous century have ascribed to the divine.
