Northfork was another good movie, what I found most interesting, along with Brynne apparently, was the way Irwin envisions angels in the film. The filmmakers have angels appear as whatever Irwin wants them to look like, as non-threatening beings that a child would not be the least bit scarred of. While I think that concept is certainly interesting, a big part of me disagrees with it because that is simply not how angels are portrayed in the Bible. Now the point of Northfork is certainly not to be an accurate representation of scripture, I know that, but all it does is give people incorrect notions of the God of scripture. In the Bible angels scare nearly everyone that sees them because of their obvious power that is very obvious (I am assuming) by their appearance. In the Old Testament an angel killed over 100,000 people single-handedly, where is that in a movie? If a movie showed a single angel kill a small city's worth of people that would be sweet, and I think people would better understand the power of God. With the angels depicted in Northfork going through people's minds, God is not an all-powerful being capable of doing whatever he wants whenever he wants, he is more a nice guy that asks people to be nicer when they let him talk.
I also felt that the movie was a little bit too visual and artsy. I understand that style of film is not my cup of tea, and that is fine with me, however there is a certain point when a movie is just so slow that I cannot imagine anyone really enjoying it. Certain movies, like action, you can pop in and out, see bits and pieces, and still enjoy it. Movies like intense drama keep you on the edge of your seat and you cannot leave the movie even if you wanted too. But movies of the Northfork genre, well I don't really know what they do, they are not entertaining in just bits and pieces, but don't really wanna keep you watching the entire time, so I guess that puts it into the genre of films I don't think are very good.
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