The movie ‘Smoke Signals’ tells the story of relationships between two main characters Victor Joseph and his friend Thomas. Thomas has a special relationship with victor’s father, Arnold, who accidently killed his parents, but saved him from burning house. And this was the main reason why Thomas saw Arnold as father and idealized him. However, Victor's father drank and Victor did not like it and this was the main reason why Arnold left the family and lived in another city. Victor hasn't seen his father in over 10 years And when Arnold dies in Arizona, phoenix Thomas and victor travel together from Idaho to Arizona to retrieve victor’s father ashes. During the movie it can be understood that the two main characters are opposite to each other but at the same time complement each other and still be friends. Victor is always serious and a little aggressive, and Thomas is always talkative and cannot do without jokes. When Victor and his friend come to Arizona, stay overnight in house of Arnold's companion in the last years of his life, which was a very good moment for Susie (his father's companion) to explain what really happened on that fateful day, how the fire happened and the guilt that his father felt all his life then.
Susie said that Arnold had always lived with thoughts of home and his family and how he couldn't dare come back home. Also, after these words stunned Viktor enters in trailer in which lived and died his father, he claims some valuable things and sees in purse of Arnold a picture of their family and signed as 'house', that proves Suzy’s words. Victor and Thomas are coming back in Arnold's car. The events of recent days have turned Victor's soul upside down, and he has a hard time controlling himself. He and Thomas are arguing: Thomas’s nerves are finally losing his temper, and he accuses Victor of wasting his life by wandering around on a reservation and upset his mother, who is already having trouble after leaving Arnold. During a quarrel, friends almost crash into a car standing across the road. At the last moment, Victor turns the steering wheel, and they move out into the ditch. There they see a woman lying unconscious and a friend and her husband bustling around her; Victor volunteers to bring help.
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In response, the man only hopelessly waves his hand: the nearest city is too far away, the girl cannot survive. Victor immediately runs to the city for help. In the morning, when he falls exhausted, a road worker finds him and helps him up. Victor and the injured girl are in the same hospital. Her friend thanks the guys for their help and warns them that her husband is going to blame them for the accident. Reasoning that they better not wait for the police to arrive, Thomas and Victor make their way to the exit, but the policeman is already on duty at the hospital door. In the precinct, Thomas confusedly explains what happened. After listening to the statement of the driver of the car that Victor crashed into them, being drunk, Victor swears that he never drank alcohol. The head of the police station releases Viktor and Thomas, as their words are confirmed by the testimony of the driver’s wife, which refers to the bad behavior of her husband. On the reservation, Victor apologizes to Thomas for being unfair to him and gives part of his father's ashes as a souvenir. Standing on the bridge with an urn in his hands and looking at the stormy river below, Victor mentally says goodbye to his father and lets go of the past. He pours the ashes into the water and screams, getting rid of pain and longing. Maturity began for him.
This movie ‘Smoke Signals’ shows that a person does not become an adult just because you have become older in age, but the situation that can happen in your life and turn it over will be the beginning of the adult life of a person as he will look at life differently and see all sides of his decision that he takes.
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