Even death eludes them: not only the "sweetness" of the white-bearded Bhishma's timely death, but also the resounding, heroic/anti-heroic death of an Ian Curtis or even one modelled on the bathos-ridden suicide of Bruno in Stroszek that we might have been expecting from the chicken à la Herzog that was proffered at the beginning of the book ...

Being in Lieu reflects on Dogma.

... the pain is deeper now, the desperation more acute, the catastrophe more imminent.

Paul Bowes reviews Dogma at Amazon.co.uk.