one of the thing about the film that warm my heart string be that dry fly fishing be a major part of the scene . i have occasionally carry out my time of dry fly fishing and have tie my own fly and and be accompany by my brother and my father we spend a day on one river or another seek to tempt the ever elusive brown trout to rise and take the fly that have be offer to them . when we have occasion like this any difference between u disappear and any of the pressure of the world melt away to be replace by the glory of be absorb in the activity and the surroundings of the place we be in . this be one of the amazing thing that be portray to me in the film a the minister and his two son and norman and pauly carry out the ritual . for there be something ritualistic about fly fishing a there be something ritualistic about so many pastime . you can not just start cast your fishing line and hope for the best . you have to attune yourself to the place you be in and you have to scan the surface of the water consider how it be flow and where the best point might be to place your fly and and depend on your skill level and you might even get your fly to land there long enough for a fish to take note of it and strike . the art of fly fishing be direct and represent so well that they themselves can be classify a artist . the title for the film could not be more aptly choose and for the river do in fact run through the life of father and two son . this film however spread itself broad than the family and community in montana and by the the blackfoot river and where the film be play out . it have the capacity to draw you in and to enthrall you and to capture you and a the history of the family and community and period be unfolded . the story tell be not just a family history and but a history of life . what may be classify a a river of life .