Imagining evil of this magnitude simply does not come naturally to the American character, which is why, even after we are repeatedly confronted with it, we keep reverting to our natural, naïvely optimistic selves.
But at several points its imagery recalls salient features of beloved works of American dance repertory, like Balanchine's "Stravinsky Violin Concerto" (whose Aria I duet features acrobatic movement) and Paul Taylor's "Cloven Kingdom" (whose four men keep reverting to a crouched, pounding, four-legged, bestial vocabulary).
This man keeps reverting to the floor; that man keeps rebounding from it.
(It keeps reverting to a screen of black-and-white text decipherable only by programmers).
But he kept reverting to his signature approach, in which he pictured the natural or metropolitan world broken into Cubist patchworks divided by horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.
The talk, when the characters come up for air, ranges widely but keeps reverting to the Iraq war and the movie business.
Canin, contrariwise, pieces together, in mostly short takes, an airy collage of imperfect memory and fleeting impression, as Corey's recollection of a bygone misfortune, half-comprehendingly witnessed in his adolescence, keeps reverting to pleased contemplation of his bourgeois present.
Alpha Papa, the big-screen debut of Steve Coogan's bumbling local DJ, is a lucky loser of a movie, a Walter Mitty tale in which the wannabe hero keeps reverting to type.
That is why Marina keeps reverting to the topic of breasts and penises, not in the snickering, jockeying, size-means-everything tone adopted by the primates of "Friends with Kids" but with forensic fascination, as if bewildered that mere physical appendages should warm and tantalize our feelings.
I keep reverting back to the skill level.
