He thought about his frantic exit on Tuesday and his home in the rearview as he watched the news that night as Pacific Palisades burned.

One frantic neighbor had a baby and no car, he said.

It all came to an abrupt end last month after Syria’s Sunni rebels toppled Assad, triggering a frantic exodus from the city by anyone who had been fighting under Iran’s banner.

Then there was the tone and pacing of the movie — frantic, jagged, adrenalized.

When Susannah Morgan learned that an operation to remove a benign tumour in her neck could leave her with a crooked smile she was "frantic".