1.   Even greater difficulties follow from the way in which Marx identifies production with human essence.

2.   Laing is still preoccupied with the authentic self, the repressed human essence.

3.   But one of the things that I wanted to portray in my film is that violence is, indeed, a part of human essence.

4.   The film, investigating a similar question, pushes its characters to the very limits of their humanity even as it strips them to their human essence.