Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bottle of olive oil." "I didn't know olive oil was boring.") Things begin to happen fast, but the play goes off balance once the static, dreamy atmosphere of the first act is left behind. The rest of the play ignores the social and sexual issues raised by the plot--marriage between the rich Lorenzo and the poor Teresa--and it just doesn't have the magic to make up for it. Ginzburg's people, in the end, are all psychology and no character...
...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...
...film itself. This general chaos surfaces in the first few minutes of Counterpoint and rules with an iron hand for the duration of the film. Both of Brown's worlds--the order and the chaos--are presented with the same frenzied, confused montage which wreaks havoc on the plot. Even the masters of quick-cutting, whom Brown openly imitates, structure their films around sequential thought, building their tricks atop a plot that conveys at least a remote sense of plot or development. Tenuous visual connections alone aren't enough to grab an audience...
...blame for England's economic crisis on the miners. The theme of Heath's Conservative Party campaign is "Who runs the country, the elected government or militant trade unions?" Heath, following the lead of Nixon and Joe McCarthy, is trying to pass the whole thing off as a communist plot in hopes that the tide of public opinion will be turned against the strikers...
Starkly and brutally realistic, but dreamlike in an intense emotional way, Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones) tells a story about juvenile delinquents growing up in slums outside Mexico City. Bunuel--the master film surrealist--made this movie in 1950. He formed the basis of his plot from a true story in police records, but no straight documentary could ever have the power of this film. The strength of the characters in Los Olvidados and the things that happen to them drive pins into your soul...