Their family’s story will become a legend for all time. The sweetness of their smiles, the brightness in their eyes – James’, Kati’s, and the children’s – so much life and love.
Part of what strikes me is James’ resemblance to Bruce Lee. I loved Bruce Lee and have been fascinated by his life for so long.
Something about James also reminded me of John Lennon (the shots with the sunglasses with him and Kati). And then there is the incredible irony too that their one store in San Francisco, called “Doe” has a forest theme, and then for them to become entrapped in the forest with both the most tragic outcome and the most joyous outcome concurrently. My heart just breaks and aches for all of them.
An opera must be written about the love story, the tragedy, the will to survive, the crushing loss, the miraculous survival…and now the even more searing pain on learning that the family's entrapment came about as a consequence of someone's vandalism, cutting a lock and opening a gate to the closed-off logging road they had the misadventure of traveling down.
