Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.