Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal"

Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, who comes to New York only to discover that during his flight, a political rebellion occurred in his homeland. Unable to return home until the US government recognizes the new government in his country, Viktor is ordered to stay in the airport. Amazed by the airport's glittering arena and glass-and-steel international transit area, Viktor patiently goes about making airport his home, while the story evolves into a satire of the dilemmas of immigration. Viktor hardly knows any English and roams in the airport as a silent observer. The role offers Tom Hanks the best opportunity to prove his ability to perform comic scenes with a great ease. His East European language accent is fun to observe. Spielberg’s attention to detail of certain aspects in the airport must be appreciated.
As the story proceeds, Viktor meets Catherine zeta Jones and then cupid strikes an arrow. Jones is unhappy with her present life due to an affair with a married man. Viktor‘s simplicity and humility is acknowledged by Jones. She does not really care about the new found feeling of love as she is busy and she does not have time for things that seem to be small but very important.

Spielberg has tried to expose and enlighten a philosophy, “RULES ARE MADE FOR HUMANS, HUMANS ARE NOT MADE FOR RULES”. Rules, laws, regulations and policies are made in order to bring in a proper system with discipline. I don’t deny the fact that we should follow these rules for the system to run properly, but these rules should not be prioritized higher than humanity, compassion and mercy. In the movie a person, who wants to carry a life-saving medicine to his country, is stopped as there was no proper prescription by a doctor. Viktor helps him take home the medicine with his wit and smartness.
The most amazing thing shown in the movie is the fact that humans still respect and believe in emotions such as love, friendship, care, compassion, kindness and affection. The kind of emotions that gets exchanged between airport personnel and Viktor takes you to that perfect world filled with simple love and affection that we have all been dreaming about at some point of time in our life.
Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal" is a movie I always want to see again and again. It is a must see movie.