Yet, interlaced with these weighty themes of sex and violence, was a narrative with often comic threads.
Blomkamp seems to have brooded long on his weighty theme.
Since 1987, when Mr. Wilson started Porcupine Tree as a one-man lark with a fictitious history, he has embraced the genre's penchant for weighty themes and audiophile integrity, with well-crafted songs — whatever their duration — offsetting florid display.
From the time when they were first classified, back in the days of the Napoleonic wars, up to the present, they have served as the focus for fittingly weighty themes: industrialisation, national rivalries, and survival and extinction.
The Minoans' most fervent admirers, Ms Gere notes, were all "trying to make sense of some of the weightiest themes of modernity the death of God, the woman question, the human appetite for war".Evans's own pacifism was inspired by his experience of covering anti-Turkish rebellions in the Balkans as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.
For his first production of the play, almost a decade ago, Chereau gave the weighty themes suitably weighty treatment, but the result left him unsatisfied.
In over 40 years of scribbling for the stage, she has consistently dreamed up new ways of toying with weighty themes: "Serious Money" (1987) uses salty dialogue delivered in verse to dramatise capitalist corruption.
What's more, his account is edited by Jonathan, and contains a boatload of weighty themes.
The weighty themes — post-Holocaust defiance and post-Stonewall pride — are still in play but less laboriously.
What's most surprising about her, though, is that she approaches these weighty themes with such a light touch.
