Movies I enjoyed  : The Terminal

I Watched this movie recently when I was travelling. Absolutely brilliantly portrayed by Tom hanks. The story is quite simple. The comedy - drama focuses on a person trapped in the airport - neither able to move into the country he has chosen to come to nor being able to go back to his country - because that country has been 'derecognised' by the country he has walked into. A 2004 movie, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones, it shows the story of a man trapped. in a terminal at JFK International Airport when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country, the fictitious Krakozhia, due to a revolution. This is supposedly inspired by the 18 year stay of the Iranian refugee, Mr. Mehran Karimi Nasseri in the Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Terminal I, Paris, France from 1988 to 2006.

Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski in this film, a man who comes from an Eastern European country to New York. However after he left his country war broke out. This means that Navorski is now a man without a country since US does not recognize his country any more. Hence, he is denied entrance into US. But, since he has arrived legally, he cannot also be deported back.

He cannot speak English well. But he starts to learn and adapt and understand others. This makes the security manager, who wants to expel him, extremely unhappy.

Why Navorski came there, what are his drives, why is he prepared to wait for 9 months in the airport, what does he do to live out there form the rest of the story.

I would say that it is a fantastic story. A story which brings out the idiocy of policies of countries and how they are at cross purposes with human life. How simple rules can become asses quickly. How human will triumps over everything.

Vavorski simply says "I wait". It melts even the toughest of the hearts.

How to take life simply. How to treat everyone - including the one who means harm to you with passion. How to take simple joys in life even though your life itself is not great. All these are lessons from the movie. I enjoyed watching every bit of it. Lovely movie. Worth watching.