A couple of weeks ago my class and I watched a movie called smoke signals it is about these two Indian cousins grow up together and basically this movie was about them growing up on a Indian reservation and what happened is victors dad was all drunk on one fourth of July and he was messing with fireworks I think it was a roman candle and what that does is shoot ten fire balls and he started shooting them and one got into the house and starts the house of fire but by that time the whole house goes in flames.
Victor was still in the house with his cousin something starts a fire and they couldn’t get out of the house because they were both new born so victors dad goes back in the house to save them both and he does it but other people of the family weren’t so lucky some had perished in the flames. After awhile both victor and his cousin start growing up and victor is very good at basketball and his cousin Tomas is growing up like a nerd always wearing suits with his glasses.
Tomas always asked Victor where his father went because he just decided to leave after what he had done and he had a drinking problem and his wife told him they weren’t going to drink no more because it is hurting and killing their son inside. So he just wanted to leave because he couldn’t handle what he had done so I think he had to drink to ease his pain that he had so he had to get away and when he did he had passed away in his trailer that he had.
Well he was staying there he had met a girl and soon she was his women and when he passed she had called victor and told him the new about his father. When victor goes over there he had to take Tomas with him because he couldn’t afford to go alone so Tomas and victor take a bus to Arizona. The way this movie got my attention was I had to grow up with some of the things Victor did my dad had a drinking problem he would always put his drink before any of my family.
I knew he loved me but I also knew he had loved his drink I just remember my dad would come home all drunk and started fights with my mother and she was strong about she had left him because he had to many wrecked cars and trucks and over 10 D.w.i and she wasn’t a drinker so she got tired of it and she got us a new house and my dad had went to prison so I didn’t get to see him that much in till I was a little bit older.
The most important thing about this movie that thought me was about forgiveness because it is hard growing up without a father to be there for you and not there for your football game or baseball games it seems like the love is gone to this day I don’t think my Dad has ever been to one of my game but all the time he was gone he was just helping himself for the last 3 years he has been in Denver in a rehab home for recovering alcoholics.
So that thought me that and I do forgive him but I won’t ever forget it how it was growing up this last week my dad came to visit me and my sisters and man he looked better than before so I am really happy the way he changed his life around so that was the point this movie had to give me.
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