Up next was the night's feature film Arctic Son.  This feature length film was a blunt portrayal of a young man's coming of age through the guidance of his father.  Caught in a tailspin of booze, night clubbing and drugs, Jr, was on a path of either prison or the grave.  He lived at home with his mother who had raised him alone since he was a baby.  His father, who also was afflicted with a nasty drinking habit, had picked up and left the temptations of Western living to pursue a simple life in his ancestral home in the Yukon.  For father and son, the time had come to reunite and begin to heal the wounds of lost time.  The father saw a reflection of his own destructive youth in his son, hoping that the call of his ancestral homeland would serve as the same saving grace.  Tough love provided the template as the father took Jr. on a perilous expedition through the Yukon wilderness to an isolated cabin that was their destination.  Throughout the journey Jr. learned the ancient ways of his ancestors from his father, fishing, hunting, crossing dangerous frozen lakes and dealing with struggles as they occur.  Life in the wilderness served as kind of rehab center, both for Jr's. destructive lifestyle as well as the father/son relationship.  The effects of global warming played a supporting role as we learned just how much had changed in the frozen tundra in just one generation.

More to come...