Northfork

I think this was one of my favorite films we've seen so far. One of the reasons I loved it so much was due to all the rich imagery. It was not only beautiful and artistically created, but it was also effective in conveying its symbols to us. Some of the more significant and beautiful symbols I observed were: The outhouse with the cross on the front (the father apologizing and confessing, shows how this outhouse mirrors a Catholic confessional. Its also cool to note that an outhouse is for shedding “waste” and so is a confessional), the airplane the angels fly off in at the end (its using a plane, technology, but it reminds us of flying on the wings of angels), the coffin on top of a car driving up the mountains (what a stunning image, the coffin traveling up to the mountains, which symbolizes the final witness of “coming in and going out”) the simple things like the boat house (symbolizing Noah's arch) and the car coming to the cross roads (which looks like the Christian cross), and the priests dog head cane (linked to the wooden dog that leads the little boy to the house of death. This shows how the priest leads us to this transition.). Altogether, this is an extremely moving film, and I think it was very successful in conveying its message.