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Classical in form, contemporary, contemplative and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Peter McGinnon TMDB · Aug 20216/10
I may have watched The Terminal a while after it first came out, but I remembered no details, so I took the opportunity o watch it on Netflix recently. Whether or not I watched it before, I may not remember the details very well now either. It is a quiet movie with a slow moving plot. It stands in direct counterpoint to Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, which was slow moving in a way, but it had as a backdrop the murder of millions of people and one man’s character growth towards a time when he would try to save some of those lives. It’s quiet tone is interrupted by spurts of emotional and physical violence. The Terminal does not offer such exclamation points to add to suspense and tension. That is not to say The Terminal is boring, though some may find it so. It is a character study of a man in limbo, neither in the United States nor able to leave it. He has left his country to go to New York City, and there is a coup back home, and since the United States does not recognize the new government, he is stuck in a section of JFK airport. The story is very loosely based on the story of an Iranian man. He was apparently paid to use his story, but they ended up only using the concept behind
Read the whole review on TMDB - Kamuraion TMDB · Jun 20219/10
Great watch, will likely watch again, and do recommend. I should be able to recommend this just based on "Tom Hanks trapped in an airport", especially given how popular "Cast Away" was. I really love what they did with him being foreign and trap in an American airport, but being hard-working and intelligent. I'm sure there is a "Larry the Cable Guy" version of this movie when it's a useless American trapped in another country that would be much funnier, but clearly a worse movie. The progression of Hanks' character is wonderful, and while there are definitely components of this being a romantic movie, it is refreshing to see a movie that can hold the character's romantic motivations in parallel to the story's motivations and allow them to both be and be separate. Stanley Tucci also does a great job, though its as a very unnecessary villain. Yes, it's a guy doing his job, but the character is oddly motivated for someone trying to score a promotion: something they specifically point out in the movie. My point is that not only it is a well-made, well-performed movie, but it manages to be something larger and highlights problems with us a humans, society and bureaucracy.
Read the whole review on TMDB - SierraKiloBravoon TMDB · Jun 20206/10
Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/n9WhSQ8mYPI Tom Hanks is a perennial favourite in our house, and his 2004 movie _The Terminal_ is one that somehow I missed along the way. I’ve now fixed that and it’s time to talk about it. Let’s start with the official description: _Victor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d’état exploded in his homeland, leaving it in a shambles, and now he’s stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he’s holding a passport that nobody recognises. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living - and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant. _ A man stuck in an airport for months on end, sounds a little far fetched? Not so much - this was actually inspired by the true story of a man named Merhan Nasseri who lived at Charles DeGaulle Airport in France from August 1988 to August 2006, yes, 18 years. He got stuck when his refugee certification documents were stolen from him in France, en route from Belgium to England. It’s an incredible story, and worth reading up on on Wikipedia. The movie is pretty light and fluffy stuff,
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Cast
- Tom HanksViktor Navorski
- Catherine Zeta-JonesAmelia Warren
- Stanley TucciFrank Dixon
- Chi McBrideMulroy
- Diego LunaEnrique Cruz
- Barry Shabaka HenleyThurman
- Kumar PallanaGupta Rajan
- Zoe SaldañaTorres
- Eddie JonesSalchak
- Jude CiccolellaKarl Iverson
Crew
- Steven SpielbergDirector
- Sacha GervasiScreenplay
- Jeff NathansonScreenplay
- Janusz KamińskiDirector of Photography
- John WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- Michael KahnEditor
- Laurie MacDonaldProducer
- Walter F. ParkesProducer
- Steven SpielbergProducer
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