Tara Thompson - Northfolk

Northfolk was a very interesting movie. I wasn’t quite sure what the meaning behind it was, and I’m still not sure I fully understand it. However, I do know that during the film my emotions were going crazy. I felt for the boy in the story immensely. They fact that he was an orphan and nobody wanted him broke my heart. It made sense to me, that he was dreaming of angels and that they ended up taking him away as he passed on. However, I was confused as to why they were selling all the houses and making everyone move out of the town. I know that there was a flood coming, but I didn’t understand why it was so important to get everyone out and that the men who did were so stressed over their jobs. Oh, and then I was even more confused by the angel wings. Was it a town full of angel’s before the people cut their wings off?  I was also confused as to why the two stories connected, about the boy and then about the town flooding. The best I can do is wonder if it was a film about death: death of a child and death of a town. Perhaps it was showing that although there is death, there is also the promise of something after. For instance, the boy was taken away by angels into a new life, and the town was flooded and turned into a beautiful lake afterwards? Then there was the father son relationship who had to deal with the death of their wife/mother. I wish I had understood the movie a little bit more because its not that I didn’t like it. It just didn’t make as much sense to me as I’d hoped.