But the close-ups of faces convey reams of inchoate emotion and enhance the stumbling poetry mouthed by characters whose urge to connect conflicts with their innate sense of caution.
Then there are the skateboarders whose urge to build something more personalized extends to motorcycles.
Galoup ultimately emerges as a sympathetic figure whose urge to destroy Sentain is portrayed as an inevitable, almost Pavlovian response to the punishing asceticism of military life.
Birnam's lost weekend is a year of sobriety for Guthrie, whose urge for drink takes a back seat in storytelling relevance to the urge of others to encourage him to return to the bottle.
Erm, why? Bowie delivered an album, Blackstar, on his deathbed – wouldn't playing the harrowing Lazarus video be a more fitting way to pay homage to an artist whose urge to create and inspire remained undimmed to the very end?
Smith's astonishing insights into Matt's troubled mind reveal that he has a secret sharer, a stunted self whose urge to create is both a reflection and a reversal of the killer's destructive desire to commit art.
Other season highlights include a workshop of "Margaret and Craig," by David Solomon, with Mario Cantone ("Sex and the City," "Assassins") and Marin Ireland ("reasons to be pretty"); and readings of new plays by Mona Mansour, whose "Urge for Going" just finished a run at the Public Theater's Lab series, and John Patrick Shanley.
Young Japanese girls whose urge toward reinvention combined with an insatiable appetite for Western pop culture translates into a frenzy of fried blond hair, skin tanned the color of burned caramel and a wardrobe that looks as if it were pulled from Lindsay Lohan's closet.
The fourth, the Home Army (whose poster urging Poles "to arms" is shown above), was in Poland itself.
Two independent booksellers, whose petition urging Amazon to pay its "fair share" of tax in the UK has received more than 169,000 signatures, are calling on their MP to keep up the pressure on government to ensure companies such as Amazon pay what they say would be a fairer level of corporation tax in Britain.
