Continually draws me back in
Added 1/22/2010
I got this movie because I married a Native American and have been on the Red Road about a year now. I am also an Adam Beach fan. But I had no idea how much the film, and the story of love and hope that transcends time and space would captivate me. I only watched it last night and was so gripped by it's message and medicine that I tossed and turned all night thinking about the movie and all the many faceted meanings of the storyline. It got me big time, and as a person who had a traumatic childhood a bit like the Mia Kirschner role, I really identified with what she went through in her early years.
Adam Beach's performance is stellar and breathtaking. He is gifted. Part of that I think is his Good Medicine, which you can see, feel and even touch in so many ways. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Gordon Tootoosis as well.
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Now and Forever is such an AMAZINGLY sacred little piece of Native American filmmaking, despite its low-budget.
Added 10/7/2009
Now THIS is what I call one of the most powerful and most compellingly moving coming-of-age love stories I have ever, ever seen in Native American cinema, despite the film's initial low-budget look. I personally found the performances by both Adam Beach (playing John Myron) and Mia Kirshner (playing Angela Wilson) to be so rather captivating, so powerfully gripping, and so, so true on a much more human level... especially when it came to the slowly blossoming and increasingly intimate romance between the two of them, despite their completely different racial backgrounds. I was definitely blown away indeed, and what wonderful chemistry they produce in one another, too!!!
And I DEFINITELY LOVED the way that this movie immediately overcame and just totally abolished the all-too-popular racial ethnic stereotypes between the whites and Native Americans that we have seen probably way too much of from Hollywood since our youths, and that is so brilliantly refreshing for a film like this!!!
Another thing I so especially and genuinely admired about "Now and Forever" is that it seriously and quite unapologetically embraces and honors Native American traditions as well as its amazing spirituality as it cuts REAL deep into the core center of its great spiritual power indeed, all without any filters or compromises whatsoever. And I thought Gordon Tootoosis -- playing such an excellent wise-man known as Ghost Fox (who is also John Myron's father as well) -- did really a fantastic, fantastic job in enabling us deeply to cherish these most sacred traditions indeed, both in dialogue and in his amazingly convincing acting as well... especially in the middle of the central romance between John and Angela also!!
BUT, what really took me by *complete* surprise and elevated this whole film all the way into a rather special piece of Native American filmmaking for me personally in addition was the most compelling way that it deals with and especially overcomes the sexual trauma of Angela that took place since she was suddenly being brutally raped and betrayed in a motel by that creepy lying slimebag of a man that she dated known as T.J. Bolt (played by Gabriel Olds), and replaces such horrific scars with such truest and much more poignant love and chemistry between John and Angela as their relationship slowly yet surely not only penetrates and overcomes that rotten sex abuse that that other man did, but also their quite interesting rapport with one another eventually transcends and blossoms beyond even the great boundaries of time itself, into something ever more intimate and passionate that can *actually* heal those nasty, nasty scars indeed. Because of this, I suddenly had a much more intense rooting interest in both John and Angela as the two main leads here, as he seriously enables her and helps her both overcome that near-fatal trauma as well as place the pieces of her life back together emotionally and spiritually. With all of his heart, no less. ;)
And the way this all plays out from the beginning to the very end... it is just OUTSTANDING FIRST-RATE material right here with a truly magnificent blend of pure Native American sacredness that is definitely not to be missed, and that completely humanizes this whole romance story, I most believe, because this all completely made sense and captivated me quite splendidly rather instead of it being turned into overwrought hyped-up melodrama that tends to not solve any problems at all... and I totally appreciated this entire film and its big payoff as a result!!!
Congratulations to director Bob Clark for creating this spectacular low-budget gem and finally getting the Native American traditions RIGHT!!! That said, I am personally giving such a rather strong recommendation to "Now and Forever", a most definite add as one of the very best Native American films that you can buy on DVD, right along with the 1998 smash hit "Smoke Signals" on which Adam Beach also starred himself... brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT!!!!
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wonderful, sweet movie.
Added 8/29/2009
this is a great movie. watch it closely because if you miss a certain scene you'll be left scratching your head at the end.
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Great movie
Added 7/2/2009
I seen this movie on TV. I was overwhelmed. The movie is a very good love romance full of fun & spirituatility & belief and a well put together drama. I really enjoyed it.
Very good actors..
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Now and Forever - DVD
Added 5/30/2009
I received this DVD within a week. I wanted to have it in time for a visit from my Daughter, and sixteen year old Granddaughter. I had seen the movie on Lifetime movie network, and I thought it was an important lesson for a young girl or anyone to learn, on what true love is all about. We cried through the sad parts, which were many, and hoped that life and true love really were everlasting. It is a wonderful movie. It gives us faith that truely good people do exist, we just have to open our eyes and hearts to find them. K.L. Bennard
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