Product: Frequency (2000)
Rating: 5.0
BRING ME HOME CHIEF
Bring Me Home ChiefFrequency is a love story, a fantastic story about the shared love between a father and his son. The connection between the two is deep and abiding, forged by a fireman's need to love, protect and guide his son, and a son's need for the safety line of love only a father can provide.But John's father is killed in a fire wherein he heroically tries to save a young, runaway, lodged in an abandoned warehouse. For over thirty years, having grown up without the protective love of his father and then tragically without his mother's love, young John Sullivan is lost, adrift at sea. A picture of depression, he can not find the strength to love anyone else and scarcely himself; he is stuck in time.John, like his father, is a protector; he is a cop searching for a solution to the Nightingale serial- murderer case, a case which connects both his mother, his father and ultimately himself. Across the warped, phenomenal channels of time, Johnny is miraculously connected to his father via a ham radio, on a frequency spanning the thirty years distance between them. With John's knowledge of the events of time and working as a cop, can John save his father, protect his mother, bring his loving family together, and redeem himself?As I watched the movie again, I heard something in the final scene I had not attended to before. Johnny's dad, finally reunited with his family, is on third base, when he calls out to Johnny: "Bring me home, chief." That did it for me. I've always loved baseball as a metaphor for life."When You Come Back to Me Again," sung by Garth Brooks in the final scene, is poignant and metaphorically helps depict Johnny's journey from a boy and man adrift at sea to a man guided by the lighthouse, and the powerful, transcending love between father and son, a restoring love, a love bringing John's family home safely- to shore.