Possibility likes the cover of darkness: resist that false comfort zone of overpriced room service, embrace the evening and head for the bar.

Certainly, the film cannot be accused of peddling false comfort - its unhappy tale offers little cheerfulness of any kind.

However, scientists have warned against drawing false comfort from such findings.

When we begin to understand this, we can stop offering people false comfort with shallow 'everything happens for a reason'; or 'it could be worse'; platitudes.

Of course, this means exposing complexity and doubt, escaping from the false comfort of 'lines to take'.