The Terminal

How would you feel being stuck in an airport? Not in a day nor in a month but for nine months! Will you accept the challenge? Or give up?

Tom Hanks, once again, entertained me and a lot of viewers for sure with this movie. This story made me feel like I was watching him in Cast Away movie that he did way back the 90's if I'm not mistaken. He was stuck in an island for about many years when the plane where he was riding crashed. He survived from the crash fortunately but just to get stuck in that unknown island for  several years! Yet, I'd say that The Terminal is much more endurable than the Cast Away situation. 

Reminiscing that movie in my mind challenged my patience again in this movie, The Terminal. I was thinking, Tom Hanks must be a very patient person in real life maybe that producers get him to play this kind of role in the movies. Well, I'm hoping so because if I were him, I'd be the most desperate and depressed person if given without choice but to be in that situation. 

This film I believe is very inspiring. Viktor Navorski as played by Tom Hanks, portrayed a man of dignity - for not  going against the rules. He saw himself being caught in the situation where he couldn't be given permission to enter America and not being allowed to go back home (Krakozhia) as well due to the civil war that's been going on in his country. To make this understandable, he was identified without a country. Thus, making him an alien in the US and worse, they could not even allow him to step out beyond the doors of the New York Airport. To think, that he's just steps away from setting his foot on the grounds of New York, he'd be taking advantage of escaping when guards were not on their posts, right? But he didn't. And that is very admirable about him. 

So, he had no choice but to stay within the corners of the said airport and be there for as long as the war in his country is over. 

Well, I'm not going into details at all so as not to spoil your viewing if you're here just to get some overview of the movie. But okay, let me just give you hints. Right from the beginning to the end of the movie, Viktor's story revolved in the premises of the airport. His 9 months of stay in there had been colorful that he gained friends as well as respect and admiration from people and even gave him the chance to fall in love with a flight attendant. LOL! I spoiled it already! Forgive me. But come on! Watch it now before I'd be tempted to spoil it even more!