MEXICO: First class passengers on a recent Aeromexico flight were confronted by a slitherystowaway, in a jaw-dropping scenereminiscentof the tongue-in-cheek actionfilm "Snakes in a Plane."
Messiaen adds slithery harmonics to end phrases, as if a silken thread of light carries the song that connects the earthborn boulders and birds to a celestial afterworld.
If the new film commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania.