The terminal
A poor fool
Viktor Navorski, a poor fool from Krakozhia, met not the democracy and freedom in Uncle Sam’s publicity when he came to United States but rejection. He was forbidden to come into his dream state because of the rebellion in his motherland. Without the passport, he couldn’t come back to Krakozhia and come into New York City. He was trapped on the island of politics and indifference. Faced with this dilemma, he must adapt to this environment and survive from it. He was the modern Robinson.
The system and the human nature.
In Chinese proverb, we have a saying that”Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards.” A family, a department, a company and a country all need a system to maintain the operation.
The system is the law of doing things, but it is not perfect and has a variety of flaw. John Rawls, the famous political intellectual, said:”Any behavior of sacrificing interests of few people for the most public is i mmoral.” Although our system is built on the basis of safeguarding the interests of most people and is immoral in the words of Rawls, we couldn’t do non-compliance of the system and blame our mistakes on imperfection. Let us imagine that what will happen when the system meets people’s feelings. Our Chinese people always say that Law is no more than human relationship, is it true? In the movie, Viktor helped this man keeping his father’s saving drugs with his wit when the Russian man was detained by the Customs and Border Protection for some so-called illegal things. We all criticize the indifference of the
director, Frank Dixon and praise Viktor for his wit and courage. But the officers strike on their principles and safeguard the system, are they wrong? We break a running well system just for one’s adversity, are we right? In our real life, most good system is damaged because of the pretence of sympathizing with others. So I argue that the officers do nothing wrong. We can sympathize with the week, but not at the expense of damaging our running well system.
Waiting
The title of this movie is the terminal, what does it mean? Perhaps it means that Viktor can return to motherland after finishing his father’s last wish. Perhaps it means that Viktor and his compatriots have suffered their painful life. Perhaps it means the end of Viktor’s journey.
Waiting, the most frequent word that
Viktor mentioned in the movie. When Frank Dixon cheated that he could sneak into New York, Viktor said I would wait. When he talked with the airhostess, Amelia Warren, Viktor said “I am waiting”. Waiting may be a negative way to solve one thing, but in some cases could be the most effective one. Faced with unexpected difficulties, the indifference of people around and the irony of the fate, Viktor used the approach of waiting to struggle. He warmed people’s cold hearts. He let the lost people find themselves. He encouraged people who were teased by the fate to choose resistance. He told us the truth, “the terminal is the starting point.
@@@@The story is Directed by 斯蒂文•
斯皮尔伯格 Steven Spielberg , Actor 汤姆•汉克斯 Tom Hanks
Story takes place in the last century, the late 80s, Victor (Tom Hanks) is an inter-Coscia people, in order to complete his father's wishes, to be the first jazz band Dream 57 signatures to the United States .He learned of the motherland at the airport, the news of the war.
Victor's passport and identity documents, and immigration documents are all lost their usefulness. Victor neither go back to his country nor to USA, he was detained at the
airport,suddenly,he has no home,no country,and his english is so poor,at the begaining he has no money to eat,no one to ask help.
In desperation, he could only stay at the airport, sleeping in the hall chair, taking a bath in the bathroom, servicing for the passing passengert to make money. He now has only its own freedom in the body, as well as a small suitcase was filled with washed clothes, a razor, and a disposed of identity documents.
I like this story because the hero is very clear what causes difficulties, knowing his own strength could not change anything, All he can do is to adapt to the situation. At the airport, he met a lot of trouble, Fortunately, his indomitable spirith help him found a lot of support from his friend,and these guys are all worked at the airport.
We can learn o lot from this
story ,Life is waiting.when there was something wrong in our lives,we should
konw that complain will help nothing,and in this story Voctor just facing,and never say a Negative word .
真d
Threat because the then customs Secretary, the character played by Tom Hanks, said that if he does not return to boast Waukesha (his homeland), took to help his old cleaners repatriation (because the old cleaners hadown motherland killing a policeman, go back to take a seven-year jail), the distribution of food, we should also just married that guy expelled.
When the the old cleaners know is because of their own reasons, Tom Hanks must return home and can not step into the New York, he firmly heading for the plane about to land, so that he will have to attack aircraft suspect must be investigated the results of the survey can be imagined, he will certainly be repatriated. He did so in order to let his friends can reach a desire. Really great friendship.。
