The events that unfold are increasingly absurd and Kafkaesque, but Vida makes it clear that the mishaps, including the appropriation of another tourist's passport, an after-show run-in with Patti Smith, and a budding relationship with a famous American actress as unlikely as it is tumultuous, are the result of the narrator's shaky state of mind rather than a mere streak of bad luck.
To our minds, the shaky states right now are Ohio, Nevada, and Iowa.
Also, unmistakably etched into your mind, will be those shaky days before, during and after the Napoleonic wars, when Moscow burned down and was then rebuilt in a symbolic, circle-of-life way.
I might wake up sweaty and shaky, and I know it's my mind playing tricks on me.
"During those downs, the mind can get a little shaky".
"Never mind our whining about bad teams, shaky finances, unstable future," they will instruct their staffs.
The shaky camera wearies the eye but beguiles the mind, as if the filmmakers, aping the style of home movies, were also borrowing their function and fabricating sweet memories before our eyes, indulging in nostalgia for the present.
The shaky camera wearies the eye but beguiles the mind, as if the filmmakers, aping the style of home movies, are also borrowing their function and fabricating sweet memories before our eyes, indulging in nostalgia for the present.
But rather than produce benign hearts and comfortable minds, this disastrous move by the shaky Pakistani government has, of course, emboldened Islamist leaders.
