Steven Watts-Northfork

Although there was a lot going on in this film, the thing that I found to be most interesting was the story of the orphaned boy. He found himself amidst one of the worst situations i'm sure he could have imagined to happen in his life. His town was being destroyed, he was dying from a horrible illness, and his parents left him with the local orphanage to die as they fled the town. Although it seemed as if he was not fully aware of what was going on, he knew that it was not a good situation. Because of this, he began to create an alternate reality for himself where he was an angel. I found this to be so similar to many people lives that I have encountered. We often find ourselves in situations that we do not know how to handle, so we find a way to escape from it. For some people it is as innocent as reading, and others it can become using drugs or alcohol. Whatever it may be, it seems as if it is human nature to create these alternate realities in our lives in order to escape from the things that are unbearable in our lives.