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Northfork

The story

Set in 1955 in the small town of Northfork, Montana, this is the story of a dying 9-year-old orphan, Irwin (Farnes) watched over by the town’s priest (Nolte), who dreams of getting adopted, possibly by a group of wandering eccentrics (whom Irwin thinks might be something more than human), even as the townfolk are forced to leave their homes as a newly-built dam is expected to flood it out completely.

This is probably the most beautiful film I have ever seen. It has some of the most wonderful shots that have ever been captured on film. The story, well, it had to sink in. Immediately after watching this I went straight to the net and started reading reviews of it. They were some of the most bi polar reviews I have ever read on a film. Some hated it to the point where all they could do is cuss and spit, others worshiped it. I definitely am closer to the worship then the cussing.

There seems to be two conflicting threads in this movie. The black outfitted men who are working to evacuate people from the town and the priest caring for the dying child. The men are working out of desire for profit, if they meet their evacuation quota then they will get a plot of land next to the lake that will soon cover Northfork. The men work in pairs and each one has a different encounter with people who are not willing to leave there town. Each group deals with the encounter in their own way, either through sweet talk, sneakiness, or brute force.

On the other side of the plot we have the delusional child Irwin, who sees himself has a lost angel and sees a group of angels coming to retrieve him. It is very clever how all of the damages he has received from his ailments are twisted into proofs that he is an angel. For example he has two long cuts down his back from a spine surgery which explains where his wings would be. While the men are evacuating souls from the dying town of Northfork for their own gain the priest (Nick Nolte) is evacuating the soul of the boy from life for spiritual reasons.

The people that have come to retrieve the lost angel are by far the most bizarre group ever assembled on screen. There is Cup of Tea with his snotty English accent, Happy with his wooden hands, Flower Hercules with a wig held on by safety pins, and God who says not a single word but seems to be directing the flow of the story with his music box.

Of course this movie has some problems, Nick Nolte talks so quitely in some scenes he is almost impossible to hear.  It seems to be a little bit long, a great deal of story is displayed in the movie and not explained like it would be in a Hollywood movie which is good, but I think that a little more information on the town and some of the people that supposed to be moved out  would have helped me appreciate it a little better.   Essentially the movie boils down to the death of a child which is mirrored in the death of the death of a town.  Both the town and the child have struggled to survive a handicapped existence and are finally being put out of the misery.