Fincher has always been obsessed with outsiders and rebels, but now, in mid-career, he has transferred that obsession into a subtler, more telling form, with both comic and tragic implications.
"They are also behind 'globalisation and its tragic implications'.
Aware means sensitivity to the tragic implications of a moment or gesture, okashi the comic overtones of perhaps the same moment or gesture.
A sense of the tragic implications of time and place -- time making meaning transient, a present vision of a place always disappearing into the past -- infuses every scene.
Perhaps by recognizing this about ourselves, and its tragic implications, we can do something about it.
Last year, a heartbreaking image was captured and circulated, causing news outlets to investigate its subject and artists to respond to its tragic implications.
Kids' films with tragic endings.
Some people shoot back, with tragic consequences.
Another chooses patriotic defiance, with tragic results.
Sometimes with tragic consequences.
