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Smoke Signals
Product Type: DVD
Product Price: $14.99
Manufacturer: Miramax Films
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Description
Critically acclaimed as one of the best films of the year, SMOKE SIGNALS was also a distinguished winner at the Sundance Film Festival! Though Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town, they couldn't have less in common! But when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. There's just one thing Victor has to do: take Thomas along for the ride! You're in for a rare and entertaining comic treat as this most unlikely pair leave home on what becomes an unexpectedly unforgettable adventure of friendship and discovery!
Based on a couple of short stories (from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven) by Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals is a lean and assured feature that speaks well of its lengthy, rich evolution, including a development stint at Sundance. The first feature made by a Native American crew and creative team, the film concerns two young Idaho men with radically different memories of one Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer), a former resident of the reservation who split years before and has just died in Phoenix. Arnold's strapping, popular son, Victor (Adam Beach), remembers him best as an alcoholic, occasionally abusive father who drove off one day and never came back. By contrast, Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams), whom Arnold had saved from certain death years earlier, has chosen to exaggerate the man's life and deeds in a mythmaking fashion that drives Victor crazy. Circumstances bring the two together, however, in a bus ride to retrieve Arnold's ashes. There, in Phoenix, a confrontation with the reality of the dead man's fullest legacy has a profound effect on both characters. Alexie, who wrote the script and was personally involved in all aspects of the production, and first-time director Chris Eyre are so polished in their approach that you can barely feel the cinematic engine at work here. This is the kind of movie in which the characters seem to be driving everything forward, a captivating and pleasant experience that gets a little too tidy at the end (can we call a moratorium on scenes of human ashes lovingly disposed to the winds?), but which is undeniably moving. The cast, including Irene Bedard (the voice of and physical inspiration for Disney's Pocahontas) is outstanding. --Tom Keogh
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-10
Summary: "smoke signals"
Great movie - it was nice to watch a movie that was entertaining with out x rated content.
The story was thought provoking and at times very funny.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-30
Summary: "Who Is indigenous?"
For a long time, Pow Wow Highway was my favorite Rez film, but Smoke Signals might squeeze that worthy effort into 2nd place. I don't really care for "Dances With Wolves." I see it as a film to make white people feel better about what was done to Indians in the past. I was also disappointed in "Windtalkers." I thought it would be about the men who fooled the Japanese by sending messages in Navajo, but no, it was about Nicholas Cage's nice white man, friend to the Windtalkers. I sure wish the movie had been an all-Indian production like Smoke Signals. Would have been a far better film.
I read a lot of the Amazon reviews so as not to tread ground previously trod upon. I went first to the negative reviews, few in number, though they be. We each have our own tastes. This isn't a CGI film, not a lot of stunts, special effects, or car chases. Most of the action occurs in the heart. At least two of the reviewers say the acting is really bad. Where do they get that? I'm white, but grew up near reservations in Montana, have a variety of Indian friends (and as a kid, a few enemies), and have cousins from two tribes. I won't claim to be an expert. You really have to live in someone else's skin to truly understand what it's like, or walk a mile in their moccasins. I thought the acting was first rate. The conversations sounded like ones I've heard over dinner tables, around campfires, and in taverns. One reviewer said the actors spoke with Canadian accents. That's pretty funny, though the main characters happen to be Canadian. Sounded a lot like some Indians I know. Maybe Canadians speak with Indian accents? I've been with Indian friends who spoke better English than the local whites, but loved to do a little "indian-speak" in the presence of bleeding heart whites, or their racist kin, just to see them cringe, or put them off. I'm not a "cuzz-in," I'm a "cuss'n."
Anyway, the most unusual character in the film is Thomas. At first I wondered if Evan Adams was just a bad actor, or if his character was simple-minded. As the movie developed, his character unfolded. Thomas was part shaman, spirit guide, and in an odd way, a mentor. He is an innocent savant, naive, but not naive. His character is a device the writer chose to get some ideas across. I've known a lot of Victor types. They abound on the rez for good reason. Thomases are out there too, but they're not as obvious as the character in this movie.
Back in the Clinton era, there was a big political correctness effort in government service. Federal employees were supposed to refer to Indians as Native Americans. I decided to exercise my new found sensitivity at a family reunion, and in a discussion with my cousins, I used the term Native American. The indians started laughing. When I asked why, they said, "You can sure tell a government worker!" When I asked them what they called themselves (this may sound odd, but I'd always just thought of them as people), and they said, "'Indians,' Columbus screwed us up, but we've decided it's easier to just go with it, and it's one word, not a bunch of them," and laughed their rear-ends off. It was pretty funny, but you'd have to have been there. Years later, a young Indian friend came to visit during a college semester break. After high school, he spent 4 years in the US Army and had been in the Desert Storm invasion of Iraq. He was able to attend (and graduate) from college on the GI Bill, and was taking an elective in anthropology. He told me about how the professor kept referring to Indians as "indigenous people." That really got to my young friend. He asked me if I'd been born in Montana, and I said yes. He then asked, "Doesn't that make you indigenous to Montana? Doesn't that mean everyone who's born in a place is indigenous to it?" Well, yes, it does. He told that to the professor, and got no response, just an angry shake of the head. Many of my Indian friends and relatives have passed away, and I haven't been around reservation culture for quite a long time, though I only live a few miles away. The word "indigenous" was used in the movie several times, so now I'm curious about it. Who is indigenous? The term must have hit the rez during the 1990s, because I don't recall it being used in earlier decades. Yep, I'm out of touch.
The song on the bus about John Wayne's teeth was hilarious. I won't be able to watch another John Wayne flick without looking at his teeth and hearing this song. The warrior face is something everyone who is "different" understands. It is a mask, protective gear. If you don't understand this, you're very white and have led a privileged life. It was pretty well explained in the movie, for us palefaces and maybe Indian boys who never thought about it, who are just conditioned to react. I once supervised a young, white, local boy on a large forest fire. He put on quite a macho swagger, always looked grim, had on the warrior face. Late one night we had a conversation about where our people came from. I explained that my family came from Scotland and Ireland. He gave me that puzzled look and asked, "Are you really Irish? You don't seem Irish." I asked what he meant. He said, "Well I thought the Irish were tough. You don't act tough." I told him the operative word was "act." Tough is being who you are, and not caring what anyone else thinks. I don't have a warrior face, and I don't put one on. I don't have to. I know who I am, and in deference to Victor, it's easier for me to blend in and not need one. A warrior face can keep your friends at bay, as well as your enemies. Yes, America is a foreign country to many Indians. It's hard to leave the reservation, no matter how talented you are, or how great your potential is. The Rez is where your friends and family are, where you're generally accepted for who you are. You're known there and don't have to explain yourself. No one stares at you. Leave the reservation and you're in a foreign land, even though you've seen it on TV, and come in contact with it through school sports and shopping trips. Living in this foreign land is not easy. Who do you go to when you're in trouble? Who do you talk to? Who understands? Who supports you? Who has your back? No one. It's a great problem that some universities are working to overcome, where Indian students are concerned. Most of white society is indifferent to the difficulty Indians have transitioning between the Rez and the outside world, and going to and from.
There are some really delightful cameo appearances in the movie, including Cynthia Gearing as Cathy, the alternate Olympic gymnast, and Elaine Miles as Lucy, the contrarian, who drives backwards. No, palefaces, reverse isn't the only gear left in her "pony." It's sweet and funny. Contrarians puncture pretension, disrupt authority, and inject humor. Both of these wonderful ladies had major roles in the TV series, Northern Exposure. Elaine was Dr. Fleishman's acerbic and insightful receptionist, Marilyn. Tom Skerritt nicely plays an almost stereotypical Arizona sheriff, who stereotypes Indians. However, the movie didn't devolve into an additional stereotype, man's inhumanity to man, as I dreaded it would. Life is a mixed bag. Sometimes honesty (a white witness) prevails, and authority accepts it. Gary Farmer (of Pow Wow Highway fame), is one of my favorite, unsung actors. He played the alcoholic, conflicted father to a "T". Alcoholism in Montana is rampant, not only on reservations, but in white society too. I think we have the 4th highest DUI and death rate due to alcohol in the US. I speak with some authority, having been sober now for 10 years. I was always perplexed to hear white drunks in local taverns talk disparagingly about drunken Indians, like, go look in a mirror! Indians aren't the only ones who are conflicted over alcoholic fathers. Some critics didn't care for the dumping of the ashes near Spokane Falls at the end of the movie, but to my mind, it was necessary. If you thought the ashes and song about fathers was over the top, the film isn't speaking to you. Sons sometimes never come to grips with love for fathers who vacillate between smothering and totally absent (if not overtly abusive), and don't analyze their feelings and experiences, only process emotionally. It's possible that this ending may have reached some sons who never thought about it, couldn't put this into words.
If you like this film, or are encouraged to understand more about contemporary Indian life, I suggest reading McNichol's book, "The Surrounded," and James Welch's works, "Winter In The Blood," and "The Death of Jim Loney." The settings are in the 20th century, but will give you a gut level idea why some things are the way they are.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-26
Summary: "SMOKE SIGNALS"
I LOVE THESE TYPES OF MOVIES. THANKS FOR THE SPEEDY DELIVERY AND FOR HAVING IT IN STOCK.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-04-13
Summary: "Smoke Isgnals"
Haven't watched this DVD yet. Saw it a long time ago, and it made a big impression on me. I purchased it recently for a church group. It came on time. I trust that the quality is good. The story of boys on an Indian reservation dealing with the issues of growing up is timeless, and it was the first time that I had heard of NAtive American writer Sherman Alexi.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-02-12
Summary: "Scratched Badly"
It was packeged new, but the dvd case was broken on the inside so the dvd had been moving around on the inside. Completely scratched and never got a reply when I inquired about it. Not happy.