Smoke Signals Film Analysis Report

Summary and Analysis

Thomas and Victor were main character of Smoke Signal and they were Native American. Victor’s father was like to drink alcohol and play with friends. He used to like to drink everyday and his wife interrupted him and he got upset and left his home. And then he has not come back. But, there has one more reason why he left his home. When Victor and Thomas were baby, Victor’s father did firework at the midnight while he is drunken. Unfortunately, because of his firework Thomas’s house was burn. And Thomas’s father is died after he throws Thomas out of the window. And Victor’s father got the baby. But, he always thought that Thomas’s father’s dead is his fault. So he has to leave the town.

After Victor and Thomas were growing up, Victor’s mother got a phone call that Victor’s father was die. And Victor and Thomas were trying to go to get the bones. They took the bus and walk several days. Finally, they arrived a house where Victor’s bone is. And they talked with a woman who living in the house. The woman was loved Victor’s father and she told Victor about his anxious and his regret. Victor heard the story of his father and went to back to his hometown. He thought his father was not a only like drinking alcohol. His father was really caring about his family. Victor knew the truth and the love of his father.

Relation to Case Study

In the “Smoke Signal” the main characters are Native American. They felt racism in the bus and somewhere in the movie. Because of they are Indian, the bus’s people’s attention were quite not good. The people’s eyes were looks like looking a stranger or beggar. Also, they have stolen their chair from an American while they went to restroom. In the chapter 10, the attention of students to look the Francine and Tony couple was quite not good. I think, there could have much racism anywhere in the whole world.

Reaction to Film

I was really moving on this movie. This movie was the best movie which I have seen movies since I came to Kutztown University. There speech was very easy to understand. Their speech was very easy to understand, there also has a moral. In my opinion, the moral is feel happy when you with your family together. Victor knew the truth of father and his love. He thought the only reason that his father left is alcohol. But that wasn’t. He was feeling sorry for their family and Thomas’s family. He couldn’t live in the town with his crime even that was an accident. But he couldn’t accept it. I think, the movie was very great. I want to watch a movie something like this in the next time.