The day I realized that this was what was missing, I knew that the subject of the film would be death itself, death rather than survival, a radical contradiction since in a sense it attestedto the impossibility of the project I was embarking on: the dead could not speak for the dead.
There had been a spate of rumours that Mr Sharon's unwonted quiescence attestedto a decline of his physical prowess: aged 73, he was said tobe vacant and forgetful.