Sure you could hang an LCD display screen on a wall and have some net art in your home, but who's got the extra dough to drop on a spare screen?
And there are enjoyable turns from a suave Omid Djalili, as Marks's Pakistan contact, and Thewlis, who hasn't had the chance to really go spare on screen since Naked, and more than makes up for lost time as shaggy, mad-eyed Jim McCann.
Rather than a spare, blank screen, Bing's homepage surrounds the search box with a single beautiful image, such as the one of the tribesmen above or a kinkajou.
Spare change, keys, and any metal frippery that may be jangling around in your pockets will set off the metal detector and invite extra screening.
For example, if the screened population is mostly slim young Caucasians, then many women will be spared biochemical screening.
The ety8 comes with a USB charging cable, leather carrying pouch, three extra sets of silicone tips, foam tips, two spare filters (tiny screens that go in the sound tube to shape the audio), and a filter-changing tool.
With a couple of hours to spare before the screening that day, he had embarked on a driving tour of some of the locations used in the film.
And while you're navigating, you can't zoom out from that spare, elegant routing screen to look ahead at your itinerary — to pick a better route on your own, for example.
"We keep it spare; there are no screens, no special lighting," he said.
The video is unsparing and short of uplifting, but effectively unsettling, concluding with spare words across the screen: "Look at what you've done... because we refuse to end the violence".
