Matt Page-Northfork

To me, Northfork was a different movie than ones we have seen thus far. If you try to watch the move for face value, you’re sure to be confused. I personally had to stop and think about the meaning of the images to figure out what they meant as a whole. Some of the symbols I picked out in the film ranged from Bibles to angels and even arks sitting in the middle of nowhere.

A group of men in the film are hired to make sure that all of Northfork’s residents leave their house before the flood. The idea of Northfork’s leaders flooding their own town shows that human progress has reached a point where man not only builds, but can destroy as well. Also, this destruction may be necessary in order to build something better. In reality, it is a cycle that has helped transform the world from small settlements into the crazy metropolitans and cities we have today. However, one thing that is important to ask is when does progress go to far and how much change is too much? This to me seemed to be the meditation of Northfork. Although these questions may not be immediate threats, but in our future they will have to be addressed.