He remembers his comrades opening fire as he made his daring sprint across the DMZ.

For all its formal daring, “Nickel Boys” has a humanistic essence.

There was the virality of it all, of course: “Nasty” birthed memes to match your freak, a new rhetorical question — mantra, really — for a generation of people daring someone to meet them at their level.

It is often called ritual theatre for its electrifying drama, featuring daring acts like fire-walking, diving into burning embers, chanting occult verses, and prophesying.

Keeping Leonard in the pocket and daring him to pass used to be the best way to neutralize the Notre Dame quarterback.