i be fairly lose throughout most of this film and and i be the one who usually understand the work of such enigmatic cinema great a david lynch ( twin peak represent fire walk with me ) and darren aronofsky ( pi ) . not to say that northfork doesn not make sense on some level and it just doesn not combine to form a wholly coherent film . a time pass from watch the film and it theme and intention become clearer and but during my initial viewing and i be really confound and and i find that this be the major fault of the film . it lack of direction . the plot center on the town of northfork and montana in the year 1955. the town have be empty and will soon be flood to make way for the creation of a hydro electric dam . the major problem be that not all of it inhabitant be willing to be evacuate and relocate . a group of men be hire to coerce the remain resident out of the town before it will be drown and and for the most part they succeed amidst some fairly odd situation and townspeople . simultaneously and the film tell the story of irwin and a very sick young boy ( or be he a fallen angel . ) whose adopted parent give him back and due to his illness and to the northfork orphanage that they adopt him from . father harlan ( nick nolte ) care for the die irwin and but irwin imago ( or do he . ) that a group of angel ( include daryl hannah and anthony edward ) have arrive in the desolate and empty town look for a fall angel . irwin have scar on his back and on his head and and he try to convince the angel that his scar be where the human amputate his wing and halo . oh yeah and and during all of this there be a strangely surreal walk animal on stilt that roam throughout the backdrop of the landscape . there be a lot of other small event that happen in the film and but none of them end up amount to much more than momentary intrigue . one can appreciate the artistic quality of the film ( it obvious that the filmmaker care deeply about this film ) and it rich cinematography and but the film still try too hard to be different and then give up and whimper to an end without make much of a statement . like i write earlier and it become clear and long after view and what have possibly take place in the film . irwin be die and and so be northfork and and in cop with his own loss and death and irwin have most likely created character and from idea he get from the object that surround him at the orphanage and to console him a he be abandon and his life near it end . but then again and maybe he really be an angel and and he have find his kind and can now return home . i must emphasize that there be some truly beautiful moment in the film and heartbreaking and vivid and full of loneliness and sadness . unfortunately and the film a a whole just end up feel disconnect and somehow incomplete .