![]() But then I thought about the title, and how the various stories had an ethereal quality, allowing the viewer to drift in and out of them much in the way smoke will gradually dissipate when exposed to it's surrounding elements. There's certainly no sense of closure for many of the principal characters, with plot threads left dangling and expected reconciliations left to the viewer's own imagination. I didn't know what to think when this movie ended. Reviewed by classicsoncall 8 / 10 "You'll never get it if you don't slow down, my friend." Finally, it's Auggie's turn to spin a tale.-Tad Dibbern Paul Benjamin (William Hurt), a disheartened and broken writer, has a brush with death that is pivotal and sets up an unlikely series of events that afford him a novel glimpse into the life on the street which he saw, but did not truly perceive, every day. In Auggie Wren's (Harvey Keitel's) New York City smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life. ![]() This movie tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. ![]() The plot of this movie, like smoke, drifts and swirls ethereally.
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