Word: smokes
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Donald Brown describes Counterpoint as a film of "hidden meanings." "An imposed, artificial order on the surface" (this is supposed to be symbolized visually by recurring shots of clocks, rows, columns, etc.) hides a world of "chaos underneath" (symbolized by smoke). This is "counterpoint." There is also a set of "misconceptions" and "red herrings" in the plot line which parallel this visual theme...
...minute T.V. spots the night before the election. He was an awesome figure on T.V. He wore a black suit and sat in a black chair in a room with black walls, so that his face seemed to hover in mid-screen, and delivered his pitch in a deep, smoke-cured voice. At the end of each spot he would bring on his family and then dismiss his wife and daughters and fondly drape an arm around each of his two sons...
Black spirals of smoke dirtied the blue sky over the Suez Canal last week, and the thud of explosives shattered the desert stillness. They were the tocsins of peace, not war The smoke was from stores being burned by the 40,000-man Israeli force before it withdrew tanks and guns from a bridgehead west of the canal captured last October. The explosions were from the captured or unused ammunition and mines that were being destroyed...
Military goods are a completely different matter. At one point along the road, smoke rolled up from an abandoned barracks that had been put to the torch by the Israelis. "This is nothing," said an officer, "come back next week and then you won't be able to see the sky for all the smoke...
...Their attitude is more one of distrust. If they smoke, they care enough about their parents to keep it from them. They know their parents are smart, and aren't gonna want to change their views. They don't travel this 'hip' and 'groovy' street...