Recently the local press reported on the photographic director of Tsotsi being hijacked in a scene reminiscent of the movie. And of course, other such examples are legion.
And while many of us imagine ourselves trapped as extras on a permanent set of One Flew Over The Cookoo's Nest or Steppenwolf, our working lives are perhaps most accurately portrayed as a long Dilbert strip.
But in view of the recent initiatives to save power, I can't help but be drawn to the scene in The Triplets of Belleville where the kidnapped Tour de France cyclists are mounted on stationary bicycles and forced to cycle as a film plays in front of them of the cycle route along which they are virtually racing.
Attaching these stationary cycles to a dynamo could perhaps alleviate the need for generator solutions to provide back-up power. Offices and entire computer labs could be driven by cycle power. The increased fitness levels would encourage staff and students to use bicycles rather than cars as a primary means of transport to Campus, alleviating the parking problem as an additional benefit. And performance management would be very very easy with simple odometers and heart-rate monitors. And, perhaps, significantly more meaningful than current "systems".