But there is something beneath the surface that intrigues me.
The director, Bruno Dumont, works in Cinemascope, and the enormous, sharply focussed images breathe air and light and a richly suggestive stillness, a palpable sense of something powerful beneath the skin.
These things still happen in the Volt, but not without the sense of something more going on beneath its white plastic console panels almost like its deciding how exactly to respond to your inputs, much as HAL behaved in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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But beneath the surface something is changing here: Cypriots are proud of how quickly they bounced back from the war of 1974.
But can we be content with good nature and hard work when something more intense seems to lie beneath the surface?
Yet something even more mystical and mysterious lies beneath: the next staircase down leads to a Roman house and pagan temple, complete with altar showing Mithras killing a bull.
Something dark and mysterious and awful lies just beneath its chocolaty surface.
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Someone who has spent a good portion of her life gaining purchase has suddenly been asked to sell something, and she seems to find it slightly beneath her.
After signing a liability waiver, attendees are welcomed to pop a squat before resting their arms atop a cool, flat metal platform hidden beneath a curved sheath that looks like something you may expect to see in Dr. Frankenstein's lab, not a crowded corridor of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
After all, if something as seemingly delicate as that school of dolphins could glide beneath the surface, surely I could too.
But beneath or beside his madness, there's something about Breivik which captures, in extremis, the increasingly delusional, violent and narcissistic nature of our digital culture.
But beneath the hard-line rhetoric, the signs are there that something will be worked out.
Beneath the old man's shirt was an illustration of a forest, something like a coloured tattoo.
And that means that we've got to have some basic safety net, because people are more willing to take risks that are required for the free market to work if they know that if they fall on hardship, if something happens, that there's still some floor that they can't fall beneath, and that they'll be able to retire with some dignity and some respect.
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