Lauren Rule- Northfork (Movie Blog #3)

Northfork was a very interesting and yet sad movie.  This poor sick orphan boy is dying and nobody wants him.  The boy creates a world for himself where he belongs.  I liked the parallel between the boy's dream world and the reality in Northfork.  The town and the boy are decaying.  The boy's dream and the idea of the lake bring hope.  In Irwin's dream, he finds hope that he is wanted and belongs to a family.  It also gives him hope that he is an angel.  The priest calls Irwin an angel, possibly giving the child the idea he is an actual angel.  The boy uses the objects around him to create his story.  The priest's cane was turned into the weird looking horse, which I thought was a dog the whole movie.  The tea the priest drank was translated into the tea drinking angel.  I liked the idea that we use symbolism to connect and understand the divine referring to the angels flying in and out of town with an airplane.  I also found it very ironic that one of the actors, James Woods, as the voice of Hades in the animated movie of Hercules and then the boy is reading about Hercules.  The father and son duo was intriguing.  The house where the angels were residing is the house that smelled like death.  It made me wonder if angels smelled like death.  I mean I guess they aren't alive, are they?  But then are they dead?  The father had to reluctantly check the side of the house with the stench.  I suppose since he was older and experienced the death of his wife he would be closer to death than his son.  The son refused to take part in the stench.  I would not want to see death either, if I could avoid it.  In our society, parents are supposed to guard their children from death.  The boy did not even want to deal with relocating the coffin of his mother.  The father buried her in the mountains, signifying witnesses.  The mountains were there long before the town and will remain long after; if they could speak, the mountains would give a long history.