Review Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals Best Review

I'm a bit bewildered by the few negative reviews that this movie has garnered here on Amazon. To set one reviewer's mind at ease: although I too consider myself a liberal, I would not hesitate to give any piece of art a bad review, IF it deserved it.

Since many more reviewers have stated their cases far more eloquently than I could, let me just say this: I think this is a charming, quirky, well-acted, thought-provoking movie. Its slow pace perfectly reflects the feel of life; it's not a shoot-'em-up, mind-numbing exercise in "entertainment," but a thoughtful study, a singular piece of art, a reflection of life. Perhaps, because it's texture and pacing are different, it seems quite unique and unsettling.

As Shakespeare says, acting (and by extension its venues, plays and movies) has a purpose: "to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." I think SMOKE SIGNALS does that quite well!

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Smoke Signals Overview

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!

Smoke Signals Specifications

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

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Customer Reviews

Scratched Badly - M. Johnson - Fargo
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.



Very Good Stuff - James Rodriguez - Whittier CA
As a high school teacher, this is an excellent resource for a variety of purposes, especially Native American concerns. It's humor is key in maintaining
interest, as is the use of flashback in the narrative. FIne story, clear literary aspects, provocative, and just plain old entertaining...






the two tonto road trip - R. Bagula - Lakeside, Ca United States
Sons and fathers on the reservation where there is no future,
but a very bad past. Most Native Americans are the survivors
of a documented past and a stolen land.
We have two young Indian boys who become men
when the one who saved Thomas and fathered Victor
dies in exile in Arizona. The actors mostly talk with a Canadian
accent/ cadence.
Since the reservation gambling Native Americans have gained
some wealth and maybe a future, but this movie deals
with the isolation and desolation along with alcoholism
that has plagued them in the 20th century.
A culture or cultures on the trail of rebirth needs films like this
for identity.

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