Blue Heron by Sophy Romvari--SFF
Did you know that a quantum system is a piece of the physical world whose possible conditions are described by probabilities and quantum states, rather than by one completely definite classical condition. I checked this out a while back and it stayed with me and I thought of it today as I took to describe/review the film I choose from the SFF set list.
Sophy Romvari wrote and directed 'Blue Heron.' And at today's lunchtime launch, one of the festival organisers introduced the film as a fragmented semi biographical story.
Sometimes when I write, I put down a phrase and then I stop to think and before I add my next paragraph or sentence I add another comma. And I can continue on like this for a story/essay. I call them my thought commas, they're not really real, just a page decoration that describes my thinking process. And by the time I'm finished I have paced the work with a curvey scattergun (comma) precision and no attention to grammar or syntax. And I'm the only one who really understands the text until I go back, edit and apply a few grammar rules.
'Blue Heron' plot has possible conditions that are laced with probablilities. That sounds a bit far fetched but it's a story of what if's and family loyalities. It is a story . One trying to break out of its skin. I'm not sure it does that successfully or if the script focus carried it forward. But I will remember it. I will remember what happened, what didn't happen, what might have happened, and all the outcomes I describe will be my own fictional inserts.
The plot: A young family moves to Vancover Island, and the oldest son, Jerrmey who is a child from a previous relationship the mother had acts out and creates stress and havoc within the home as social services, parents and those who police our social norms watch him fall through the net. The story is told from the POV of his younger sister.
Maybe it's a story that is as broken as the social services and family conditions that pace it, maybe it's layered with an impressionist frame as metaphor. Maybe in film there are no definite classical conditions.
16th August 2026
Sophy Romvari wrote and directed 'Blue Heron.' And at today's lunchtime launch, one of the festival organisers introduced the film as a fragmented semi biographical story.
Sometimes when I write, I put down a phrase and then I stop to think and before I add my next paragraph or sentence I add another comma. And I can continue on like this for a story/essay. I call them my thought commas, they're not really real, just a page decoration that describes my thinking process. And by the time I'm finished I have paced the work with a curvey scattergun (comma) precision and no attention to grammar or syntax. And I'm the only one who really understands the text until I go back, edit and apply a few grammar rules.
'Blue Heron' plot has possible conditions that are laced with probablilities. That sounds a bit far fetched but it's a story of what if's and family loyalities. It is a story . One trying to break out of its skin. I'm not sure it does that successfully or if the script focus carried it forward. But I will remember it. I will remember what happened, what didn't happen, what might have happened, and all the outcomes I describe will be my own fictional inserts.
The plot: A young family moves to Vancover Island, and the oldest son, Jerrmey who is a child from a previous relationship the mother had acts out and creates stress and havoc within the home as social services, parents and those who police our social norms watch him fall through the net. The story is told from the POV of his younger sister.
Maybe it's a story that is as broken as the social services and family conditions that pace it, maybe it's layered with an impressionist frame as metaphor. Maybe in film there are no definite classical conditions.
16th August 2026