Yet the Ford, which is longer, wider, and taller than its ancestor — from which it is clearly influenced with
multiple points of recognition artfully incorporated — also looks fresh.
As John McCormick writes «republicanism, unless reconstructed almost beyond
the point of recognition, can only reinforce what is worst about contemporary liberal democracy: the free hand that socioeconomic and political elites enjoy at the expense of the general populace.»
There is something at work in the film that stirs the memory even as it riles the soul —
a point of recognition that surpasses consciousness.
Familiar features are distorted past
the point of recognition, with the resulting images bearing more resemblance to a land / waterscape than any human face.
Weiner's paintings are of beauty and food products photographed at such extreme close range to abstract them beyond
the point of recognition.
Practices, approvals and standards that were once widely accepted have either vanished or transformed beyond
the point of recognition.