Perhaps misguidedly, I wanted the rest of the film to continue on this level of subtlety and accessibility.
But this level of subtlety is in short supply in "The Shoemaker".
Actions can also be made in The Third (or Fourth) Intention, but discerning and employing this level of subtlety can be extremely difficult.
Last year Cameron met the Dalai Lama, which in China's terms has about the same level of subtlety as Xi Jinping meeting Alex Salmond to "wish him well" in his campaign for Scottish independence or de Gaulle's notorious 1967 "Vive le Québec libre" speech.
On the third level of subtlety, a Chinese throws a grenade at a Japanese.
On the second level of subtlety a Japanese throws a grenade at a Japanese, in order to provide an incident and justify reprisals on the Chinese.
When the words switch to English, there is only slight relief, for the rhyming doggerel fails to rival the overture's level of subtlety, let alone Hasek's.
The interplay between themes reaches an even higher level of subtlety in the first movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K 385 (1776; Haffner).
Getting the message across, however, requires a level of subtlety and imagination that lies beyond the reach of many theater artists.
