The Point of the Movie, In One Word
With a lot of my favorite movies I try to boil down the "point" of each one in a single word. I have trouble doing so with Smoke.
What would you guys say the "point" of Smoke is?
Happiness
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Spiritual.
Look where no one else is looking and see what no one else sees.
"Greyish-optimism"
The world and its inhabitants aren't black and white - they have a greyish-optimistic tone to them.
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... Smoke?
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Smoke. As defined in the film, smoke is fiction, lies, stories you tell yourself to make your world better. Each of the stories in the film has something to do with a lie someone tells, and how that lie eventually reveals a deeper truth.Smoke is the veil of lies that helps you sneak the truth in.
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I can't summarize this movie in one word, but the theme of the movie is clearly stated in the opening scene when William Hurt tells the story of Sir Walter Raleigh talking about how he weighed smoke. The theme of the movie is quite simply the weight of things missing from our lives.
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very good pov
I have to return some videotapes.
"I believe in coincidences, I just don't trust them." Source debatable.
This was the end quote on another thread by another poster, not given as the point of the movie, but it works: Coincidences!
wearing off
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Perception
Connection
Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.
Impermanence.
Peoples, seasons and things enter and exit our lives just like people, seasons and things enter and exit Auggie's fixed camera frame. Nothing lasts. As Stockard Channing says, sometimes love just fizzles out (until it comes back). Or, as Auggie tells his troubled friend, you can never know what is going to happen the next moment. The act of smoking becomes an anchor in lives that our constantly changing. In the face of death, would you rather have a good book or a good smoke? The smoke is like Auggie's camera - fixed, stable, a witness of the life that is always moving by.