Growing up from a small village, I had always been told that moths were representatives of the other world. I was taught to respect them, and learnt to leave them alone.
Came to Australia, I was surprised to find out that, no one around me seemed to think so. Since Australia has quite many different ethnic groups, I learnt with time, to keep my knowledge of moths to myself, or be thought of as "superstitious"...
It was a surprise to see this movie, "The mothman prophecies", and find out that this movie almost emphasized what I had always been told, that moths could be symbols of spirits who had not passed away to the other world completely due to some reasons.
The movie was a bit scary in the beginning. At first, I thought I was about to watch a movie about some sort of houses or villages which were haunted by unknown presence. With time, I began to link the name of the movie, with all the events shown in the movie, and figured out that it was about some sort of prophecies, shown to the main character, John Klein (played by Richard Gere).
The story began with John, a successful journalist, and his wife happily found the house of their dream. Right that night, his wife while driving, tried to swerve the car to avoid a creature with wings. Hit her head badly from the car accident, she recovered, only to find out that she had got some sort of brain tumour, and would not have long to live.
She passed away suddenly, leaving behind a grieving husband, and a sketch book full of strange images of something with wings, some were a bit demonical. Her husband thought those pictures could have been the combined result of her anger and grief from having her life cut short from everything.
Two years later, John suddenly found himself driving to a place 400 miles from where he lived, a place called Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He never really understood why and what made him did so at the dead of the night like that.
While he was there, John found out that quite a few peoples in that small town also encountered those strange wing creatures. Not only that, there were also reports of creepy phone calls, strange and weird predictions. Realised that his dead wife's sketchbook and what she told him before her death might have something related to what happening in this little town, John tried to investigate further.
With the help of some experts, he was told that perhaps he was chosen by the spirits to stop some very bad accidents which could happen to the town. A few events happened here and there, almost pointed to his dead wife, as someone who tried to protect him from some imminent dangers.
Being advised by the local cop female, to let go of the memory of his dead wife (she thought John was pushed into this subconsciously because of his grief), and that he should learn to accept destiny instead of trying to prevent things, John almost got killed in the collapsing of the bridge with many others. Luckily he survived, and managed to rescue the very same police woman who had been very patient and kind to him. (She almost got killed because she was busy trying to warn people about the collapsing of the long and huge bridge).
Some part of the movies were a bit confusing (perhaps only to me?), but in general, it was an OK movie to watch.
Laura Linney were quite good in her role as the cop of that small town: very sincere, always caring. She helped brighten up this serious and very gloomy movie some how with her presence.
