He has a talent for explaining complicated events economically, and an eye for the telling detail.
Perhaps because it is only a game, baseball offers people a helpful way of grappling with complicated events and expressing strong feelings about them.
Therefore our coming was not a complicated event.
But in the case of Babel there is a special element: his life was such a complicated, tragic and historical event.
Television news is found to handle breaking stories well, even though it neglects more complicated events, particularly in distant places.
On the firing ranges, a more complicated event was taking place.
As his relationship with his teacher takes a turn for the worse, Tae-in gradually becomes attracted to her through a series of complicated events.
All in all, the sidelines illustrate that physical proximity to a complicated event doesn't necessarily help you understand it.
Using symbols in a highly abstract way, it becomes possible to understand complicated events that otherwise would have taken weeks to calculate.
This is, to be sure, a highly simplified rendition of some rather complicated cellular events.