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INDIGO
review
by Terri Wall
Indigo will come out on DVD in the late Spring but
it had a special worldwide screening on 'Indigo Day'
on January 29, 2005. Unfortunately this sense of shared energy was
lost in Atlanta since the screening had to be postponed for one
week due to the ice storm on that date. Fortunately the experience
of the movie was still strong and uplifting for those who were able
to see it the following week.
Indigo is part of the Spiritual Cinema Circle,
a movement started by Stephen Simon, the Producer of Somewhere
in Time and What Dreams May Come (and if you've
never seen either of those you don't know what you're missing),
Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations With God
series of books and James Twyman, author of 'Emissary of
Light: A Vision of Peace'. They live in beautiful Ashland,
Oregon where this movie was filmed. They formed the group to make
movies with 'spiritual value' to make us 'feel at least
a little better about being human beings'. And with Indigo they
have certainly succeeded.
Neale Donald Walsch also appears in the film as an embittered man
who is alienated from his family due to some bad choices in his
life. At the beginning of the film we see Ray as a successful land
developer who does not hesitate to destroy natural forest and sacred
sites in the name of progress (and profits). His daughter, Cheryl,
and 8-year-old granddaughter Gracie try to tell him how sacred the
Earth is but he will not listen.
The movie moves forward two years in time. Cheryl is now in prison
due to the actions of her ne'er-do-well husband and Gracie is
being raised in a children's home. The home is concerned about
her because she stays silent for days on end. However, what they
and Ray don't realize is that she is communicating in a very
special way - she is an Indigo child, a psychic, telepathic child
who has the ability to heal others.
Cheryl is told Gracie is in danger of being kidnapped by her husband
(who fled the scene of the crime that got her busted) and she begs
Ray to take Gracie to a place of safety. Ray refuses but does go
to visit Gracie and she manages to get him to take her away with
him.
Along the way they meet various people who Gracie helps, but her
main goal is to heal her 'dimensionally challenged' grandfather
who thinks she has an overactive imagination. As she explains to
him, “What makes you think imagination isn't real? You
have to imagine something before you can create it”.
The movie traces Ray's journey - both literal and spiritual
- and shows how he comes to believe in Gracie's powers and learns
that “there are a million paths to God, religion is just one
of them”.
I highly recommend this film.
Indigo was Produced and Directed by Stephen Simon
and Written by Neale Donald Walsch and James Twyman.
Meghan McCandless plays Gracie and Sarah Rutan plays Cheryl.
The website is www.indigothemovie.com
Related websites: www.emissaryoflight.com
and www.SpiritualCinemaCircle.com/Indigo
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