Life is Waiting.
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The Terminal: The Movie Story.
Tom Hanks acted as Viktor Navorski. A man from a lesser known country of Eastern Europe visiting New York City, whose homeland erupts into a coup while he was heading for the United States of America in the plane.
He became stranded at John F. Kennedy International Airport with a passport from nowhere, as his country was not recognised.
Unauthorised to actually enter the United States nor can he leave the airport back home, he improvised his days and nights in the terminal's international transit lounge.
So his days of waiting started, for his time to enter New York City, and for the war at his country to be over.
There and then, he slowly made his way to live on the terminal, following the rules and laws as to stay on the terminal, living at the unrenovated Gate 67, his temporary home, he even learned better English there!
This in turn, worn out the welcome of the airport official, Frank Dixon, who considers Viktor a bureaucratic glitch, a problem the latter could not control but desparately wanted to erase in his terminal.
So Dixon tried to made life difficult or perhaps easily illegal for Viktor at first. But Viktor stays on, finding his way to earn a living from newly made friends, and even find a good job at the terminal.
Frustrated, Dixon, decided to let him stay. But he also tried to made sure that Viktor will not reach the doors to the official New York City which was just less than a foot away.
Time past from days, to weeks, to months, Viktor finds the compresssed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generousity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful filight attendant named Amelia.
But in the end, it was for the goal of entering New York City, as to realise a dream of his passing father's wish to collect the signatures of all but one Jazz musician, that Viktor has to end his beautiful relationship with the people of the terminal.
His father had the taste of the Big Apple through the music of Jazz.
But Viktor had the taste of the Big Apple through its people, the New Yorkers at the terminal.
The Terminal: The Movie Review.
It was a brilliant movie I say. Steven Spielberg certainly lives up to his name. So does Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones, the brillant lead. And also, acting as the antagonistic airport official, Stanley Tucci.
The story was also good as well, even though it was to cover the story time frame of almost a year, the movie nicely summarised it.
The colossal set of the terminal stage was very nicely done, making audience feel that's its of a real true perfect terminal. Not bad for the world's second largest movie set (I think the largest movie set is still of the movie, Titanic).
The shooting style of Spielberg certainly made the movie lively. That continuous motion of his camera perspective. Certainly made the airport lively and busy as of its continuous human traffic. So does his nice cuts of editing using the conventional film.
The story's similiarity and familiarity felt the same, as to the movie, The Truman Show. Both were about protagonists struggling in a small world. But there was a difference.
One is struggle to the realisation of freedom.
The Terminal was a struggle to realise someone's dream.
"To struggle is a process, and in a process we learn about life." ~ Eiizumi
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