Paddle to the Sea (The Criterion Collection)
by Bill Mason
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Actor: Paddle to the SeaDirector: Bill Mason
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of Paddle to the Sea (The Criterion Collection)
Movie Review: A Mythic Story about Journeys
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the kind of film that works its way into your subconscious. A boy carves a small wooden canoe with one wooden passenger...an all-watchful Native American...and sends the small craft into a frozen lake so that it can journey thousands of miles to the ocean. To keep the canoe afloat, the boy pours a bar of lead into the bottom of the canoe. "I am Paddle to the Sea" the boat tells us. The film tracks its journey past frogs, deer, and snakes, past ice and storm, even past the rushing currents of Niagara Falls. A few individuals fish it out of the water but on seeing the instructions (carved on the bottom of the boat) they wisely return the craft back into the lake or stream from whence it came. Thus, the canoe returns to its mysterious source. This is a fine contemplative film that makes us meditate on our own personal journeys, our own attachments, and our own connection to the living world (After all, the canoe started out as part of a tree). In a 21st century world where too many children's films are violent or meaningless, this is a perfect gift for youngsters five and upwards.
Summary of Paddle to the Sea (The Criterion Collection)
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