Northfork is an extremely simple story made entertaining by subplots and dry humor (my favorite). I was just thinking about it and its main story line on which everything is based, is a town having to move because they are flooding the land into a man-made lake. What I thought while the plot was being explained in class is this type of story happens all the time so what makes this story unique or interesting? Well that was soon answered after we were introduced to a sickly orphan boy who will not last much longer in this world. The evacuation plot soon became a sub-story within the last days of this pitiful orphan boy. The two stories oddly really were not affected by each other because Father Harlan never seemed to flinch or mention the fact that their town was about to be flooded.
Another sub-plot is between the boy and the angels. They are represented as something conjured from his mind until one of the evacuators slips and falls and is momentarily unconscious and he himself sees the angels. This can only make you wonder if the angels truly are real but can only be seen when your mind is separated from your body. Although the angels and their quirky personalities can be explained by looking at the items the boy has beside his desk, I like to think that they are real and he does end up where he belongs.
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Matt Boykin:
The mind being separated from the body is a very interesting idea on how to try to explain why the angels were actually visible to someone other than the child. The young boy is completely separated from his body when he is shown as lacking any type of life lying motionless. It is ironic that the different wounds the boy has match up with the story of another person. So it seems that the entire movie is a guessing game that never really gives you the correct answer. this is a great way to make the movie because it instill emotions and also thought provoking ideas much like the one you had on how you like to think he ends up were he belongs. That’s why I did enjoy the movie, but still did think it was “different”.
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