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The incomprehensibility of it all, of every awful thing wreaking havoc at once, has Gus in a state of jocular shock.

The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner’s score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings.

The company’s aesthetic mode is wayward, oblique, loose and jocular.

Setting aside Trump’s often jocular calls for Canada to become America’s “51st state,” none of his neocolonial claims, even if successfully accomplished, would make the slightest difference to this country’s security or prosperity.

And its inclusion in a national inventory of cultural heritage currently being created looks set to reignite the jocular dispute.