Rob Dufour - Northfork

Northfork was a pretty slow movie that wasn’t that entertaining but it was at times captivating. The slow pace of the film I think worked well for the overall tone of the film which evoked the feelings of despair as the town was seen to be experiencing it’s slow death and it’s eventually burring. The part of the movie that I really liked was through Irwin, the orphan boy who has been turned back by his adoptive parents because they believe he is defective and sick. A priest ends up taking care of the boy, although the boy is seen to conjure up images of four angels that stand beside him and give him company that he desires. Throughout the movie we do not know if these angels are from Irwin’s imagination or if they are truly angels that were sent to be with him. I don’t think that this matters too much, because if they are real to Irwin then they might as well be real. This makes me think that if someone is sent an angel or a sign that is real to that person but is really not there, does it really make a difference? A very good family friend of ours took care of her bed-ridden husband for over 8 years, and one of her husband’s favorite things to do was watch the birds at the birdfeeder outside his window. The day that her husband died, she was terribly hurt – but as she went into his room she looked out the window and saw an eagle perched on the birdfeeder that was looking straight at her and then soon flew away. I remember her telling me the story and how she knew that was God telling her that everything was going to be alright – and how I was thinking that even if an eagle wasn’t really there that day, it was really there for what she perceived as real that day. And honestly, that’s all that matters.