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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120321/ Smoke Signals
“…The first movie to be written, directed, and co-produced by a Native American….”
Adapted from the book:
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/ya/ya313.html
THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN by Sherman Alexie. Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press, 19 Union Square West, N.Y., NY 10003, (800) 645-1267, (212) 727-0180 FAX. 223 pp., $21.00 cloth, $12 paper, 0-87113-548-5
“…The twenty-two intertwined stories in the book outline the difficult lives of Alexie's "cousins," both on and off the reservation, whose existence continues solely by the effort of enduring multiple hardships. Alcoholism, poverty, and diabetes combine with depression, despair, and disappearances, in a place where there are no high school reunions because classes have "a reunion every weekend at the Powwow Tavern…”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120321/quotes
Thomas Builds-the-Fire: If we forgive our fathers, what is left?
http://swirly74.tripod.com/2002_02_01_archive
“…I heard this poem at the end of the movie Smoke Signals….”
Forgiving Our Fathers"
By Dick Lourie
How do we forgive our fathers?
Maybe in a dream.
Do we forgive our fathers for leaving us too often or forever when we were little?
Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage
Or making us nervous because there never seemed
to be any rage there at all.
Do we forgive our fathers for marrying or not
marrying our mothers?
For divorcing or not divorcing our mothers?
And shall we forgive them for their excesses of
warmth or coldness?
Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning,
for shutting doors, for speaking through walls,
or never speaking, or never being silent?
Do we forgive our fathers in our age or in theirs
Or in their deaths, saying it to them or not
saying it?
If we forgive our fathers, what is left?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was doing some editing and wanted some noise other than music or news so I tuned to a film on IDF the Independent Film Channel to a film called Smoke Signals, a 1998 film about “A geeky American Indian travels from Idaho to Phoenix with a stoic companion whose father died”
Don’t ask me why that brief description caught my eye, but it did and I left the film run in the background, not paying real close attention until the very end when I heard the words to the poem.
It took some searching but I finally found the words and I thought to share them and see if any one else has seen the film or knows the writer or the book.
amicus...
“…The first movie to be written, directed, and co-produced by a Native American….”
Adapted from the book:
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/ya/ya313.html
THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN by Sherman Alexie. Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press, 19 Union Square West, N.Y., NY 10003, (800) 645-1267, (212) 727-0180 FAX. 223 pp., $21.00 cloth, $12 paper, 0-87113-548-5
“…The twenty-two intertwined stories in the book outline the difficult lives of Alexie's "cousins," both on and off the reservation, whose existence continues solely by the effort of enduring multiple hardships. Alcoholism, poverty, and diabetes combine with depression, despair, and disappearances, in a place where there are no high school reunions because classes have "a reunion every weekend at the Powwow Tavern…”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120321/quotes
Thomas Builds-the-Fire: If we forgive our fathers, what is left?
http://swirly74.tripod.com/2002_02_01_archive
“…I heard this poem at the end of the movie Smoke Signals….”
Forgiving Our Fathers"
By Dick Lourie
How do we forgive our fathers?
Maybe in a dream.
Do we forgive our fathers for leaving us too often or forever when we were little?
Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage
Or making us nervous because there never seemed
to be any rage there at all.
Do we forgive our fathers for marrying or not
marrying our mothers?
For divorcing or not divorcing our mothers?
And shall we forgive them for their excesses of
warmth or coldness?
Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning,
for shutting doors, for speaking through walls,
or never speaking, or never being silent?
Do we forgive our fathers in our age or in theirs
Or in their deaths, saying it to them or not
saying it?
If we forgive our fathers, what is left?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was doing some editing and wanted some noise other than music or news so I tuned to a film on IDF the Independent Film Channel to a film called Smoke Signals, a 1998 film about “A geeky American Indian travels from Idaho to Phoenix with a stoic companion whose father died”
Don’t ask me why that brief description caught my eye, but it did and I left the film run in the background, not paying real close attention until the very end when I heard the words to the poem.
It took some searching but I finally found the words and I thought to share them and see if any one else has seen the film or knows the writer or the book.
amicus...
