Monday, March 17, 2014

#3 "Smoke Signals"


In "Smoke Signals" I think it grasped one of the aspects of friendship and journeys in life. Thomas and Victor are not your typical pair and may have not started off as friends but they did connect in more ways than one. Being that they are from the same reservation pretty much everything that goes on there makes them each part of each other life. But for Victor and Thomas they are more part of each other life then they originally knew. The death of Victor's father Arnold happens to bring them closer. Being that the title of the movie is called "Smoke Signals" in which you use to show signs of distress or help is actually what Victor needed. Throughout the movie you see Thomas approach Victor asking him about his father leaving in a somewhat annoying way. I feel that in Thomas' own way he felt Victor needed to talk about his father and express his anger. Also his way of telling these elaborate stories about Victor's father was to make Victor remember great things about rather then the hate he had for him.
This movie to me was basically symbolizing the journey in life where you face death and friendships. Victor had to come to an understanding about people and not that everyone is out to get him and can't be trusted.
This wasn't one of my best blogs because I was not sure how to explain exactly what this movie could symbolize. I feel it is one of those movie where it can be up to many interpretations. The main thing I got from it was the forming of a new friendship and how these two young men who are   
connected by this fire that happened brought them closer than expected. Maybe that is why it is called smoke signals because it all started with a fire. Anyway I hope you enjoyed the movie I did it was different.