Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's leitmotif for The Joker sounds like a cross between Ligeti's «Lux Aeterna» (from 2001) and the scraping,
metallic curlicue that was used in trailers for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and enhances the clenched - fist feeling that anything can and will happen at any moment, even scenes in which he doesn't appear.
The rosy pink color that dominates the Bortolami show's eight paintings — four large seasonal scenes of defiantly numinous figures, Dionysian grapes, leafy
curlicues and
metallic silver daubs; three other large paintings; and one modestly sized portrait of a naked cat, facing away from the viewer into a stoically indifferent opacity, its body like a chicken's carcass, its red tail like a snake charmer's cobra, poised to strike — brings to mind the mysterious pink lasers that transmit divine messages in Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS.