The movie Northfork has many different aspects to it. It consists of three stories in one. The overall story is what is happening in the town Northfork. The area is being made into a lake and everyone is being evacuated out. Another story within that are about two members of the evacuation team who are father and son and the third story is about a young boy whose parents have left him with the priest due to his sickness and he is left dying while the priest takes care of him. I will focus on what is going on within the last two stories and how they are portrayed in the film.
The father and son evacuation team has some very interesting moments. They have to evacuate 65 people to be able to receive lake front property any less than 65 they receive nothing. When they return with only 64 the father says there was one more house they needed to look at. This house is where the angels that the little boy is conversing with stay at and I will get into that a little later, but when they get there both make the comment that the house smells like death. While there are no dead bodies in the house, it is possible that it smells like death because they are near the angels which are close to death. While looking for people to evacuate the men go upstairs. They realize that the upstairs is split in half, but another thing is that there is snow in the middle of the house but only the father can see this snow. Winter can be seen as the death of many things and snow is part of winter. The snow creates a curtain of life and death which is something these two are familiar with since they had to bury their mother/wife. Another moment between these two is when we realize that the mother is buried where the lake will be. The father has a spiritual moment in an outhouse saying that he is coming to get her. The moment makes it look like he is in a confessional confessing his sin of neglecting his wife. From there he goes to dig her up and places her on part of his lakefront property before leaving the town himself.
The story with the little boy is very interesting. The boy is left in the care of the priest after being abandoned by a couple. The boy wants to be adopted and tells the father to let a perspective family know that he is an angel. All the while this is going on he is dying and we see him in a between state of life and death. He follows a thing into the house that is holding the angels and tells them that he is the unknown angel. When the angels realize it is him, they take him with them at the end. While these angels are based off of items on the boy’s nightstand they are not a figment of his imagination because when the father jumps through the snow to the other side of the house he sees the four angels as well and is spooked enough to leave quickly. The other thing that is interesting is that the thing that the little boy follows to the house is a creature made from the priest’s cane. The priest’s main goal was to find the boy a family and in a way that is done when he finds the angels due to the creature.
Those are some of the interesting parts in my opinion of the movie Northfork.
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