Ms. Noland, in turn, is represented here by works that evoke the violent sagas of Patty Hearst and Lee Harvey Oswald, while Banks Violette offers an inverted American flag in black and white, signaling S O S but also suggesting prison bars.
Valhalla Rising Trippy, violent Viking saga.
But there's another violent family saga lying behind "Kingpin".
He produced Once Upon a Time in America (1984), the violent crime saga starring Robert De Niro.
White inmates tended to think of themselves as imprisoned warriors, like modern-day Vikings, and they particularly liked violent epic sagas, such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and Beowulf.
Though some critics hated it when it was released in 1969, Sam Peckinpah's seminal western "The Wild Bunch" is today considered one of the most influential, poetic -- and yes, violent -- sagebrush sagas ever made.
But when canvassing men across the federal prison system in recent weeks, I was struck by how many even those clearly guilty of violent crimes saw the saga as a sort of dystopian parable for their own experiences in a deeply dysfunctional criminal justice system where elites win and regular people (like Christine Blasey Ford) lose.
But after the day encompasses both a botched theft and a drowning events that illuminate not only Beth's fate but also a nation's saga of violent betrayal it becomes clear that McCabe has written a heartbreaking modern fable.
It's a jittery, violent, plausibly grotty gangster saga that lives up to comparisons with The Wire, and not just because whippet-like Aidan Gillen pops up in both.
And I think we can be sure that Saga's harrowing, violent meltdown at soon-to-be-dead Hans's bedside will come back to haunt her.
