“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” (Catherine Ponder)
In the movie smoke signals, Thomas tried very hard to get Victor to forgive his father. In the beginning of the movie you would see Victors father really drunk. He didn’t like it. In the movie there was a part that that father was so drunk that he hit the mom. After that had happened Victors father left home and moved far away. When Victor gets older him and his mom get a call from someone, and she tells them that the father had passed away.
How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream. Do we forgive our fathers for leaving us too often, or forever, when we were little? Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage, or making us nervous because there never seemed to be any rage there at all? Do we forgive our fathers for marrying, or not marrying, our mothers? Or divorcing, or not divorcing, our mothers? And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth or coldness? Shall we forgive them for pushing, or leaning? For shutting doors or speaking through walls? For never speaking, or never being silent? Do we forgive our fathers in our age, or in theirs? Or in their deaths, saying it to them or not saying it. If we forgive our fathers, what is left?
What Thomas had told victor was really powerful in a way because some people tend to never forgive, most people don’t learn to forgive until the person that they needed to forgive is dead. SOme people never forgive. Its very hard to forgive someone that abused your family member, or someone that you loved and ran away.
Throughout the whole movie, Thomas would tell victor stories. Those stories were not just stories they were Thomas’s way to make Victor realize that he will have to learn to forgive is father.
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