The Terminal

Have you ever seen Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can which placed Leo Di Caprio in his most impressive role ever? If you've seen it, and like it a lot, you probably feel the same way about Spielberg's next project with one of the most expensive Hollywood's "Good Boys", Tom Hanks: The Terminal.
The Terminal, quoted The Hindu-Friday edition, is some kind of a touching comedy - I completely agree with this. It will make u naturally touched without being depressed, and will make u smile and laugh without any slapsticks. Basicaly, it's a movie everybody would love easily, not just because there's names of Spielberg and Hanks in it, but, mostly becos it provides good story, good directing and good acting.
An immigrant named Viktor Navorski (Hanks) fleeing the war that ravages his tiny Eastern European homeland finds himself stuck in the terminal of one of New York City's airports when the time of his landing coincides precisely with the point at which the war causes his nation of origin to no longer exist, meaning that his passport and paperwork are no longer valid. As a man without a home, he takes up residence in the terminal itself, befriending the staff of the airport, and falling in love with an airline flight attendant, Amelia Warren (Zeta-Jones). (Yahoo Movies)
Just like Catch Me..., The Terminal's based on a true story, too. I've read about this original stranger somewhere, too forget to share the detail, but what I know is he's actually not a Rumanian/ Russian (?); he's not trapped in US's JFK terminal, but in UK; and he's free at last after his unique story's published in some local medias, but surprisingly, he refuses to leave cos he's already feel at home, beside he's got some strangers-turn to be-friends he doesn't wanna leave. Sweet.
That if I'm not mistaken.
Like always, Spielberg has specific formula to serve a good drama: he puts comedy, not the black one, in the right place and the right time. For this movie, he's made some modification: maybe one of it's Navorski's romance with Amelie Warren. Eventhough Zeta-Jones's not just a pretty face, but there's something quite wrong of this part that makes it kinda lost. And the 'climax' of 'their relationship', eventhough not really annoying, somehow turns to be something insignificantly cheesy.
Another one, since the JFK officials refused to give shooting permit in the actual place, the filmmakers create the imitation JFK terminal to accomodate what Spielberg really wants. The result is, like we've already seen, amazing setting very similar with the original.
Just like the title, most of the scenes runs in the same place. But what's so good about it is you won't have time to get bored cos the story's told intelligently smoothly. Every character's put in its place proportionally so we can fall in symphaty easily, even to such antagonist like the inhumanly beaurocracy represented by the terminal official, Nixon.
But the center of my sympathy is surely for Navorski, who automatically taught me some lesson about his simple way of life, his obedience over beaurocracy (which becomes something rare nowadays but thankfully, in this case, turns to be profitable in the end) and his sense of creativity to find ways to kill time in such depressing and unsure situations slogging over the computers.... But i wont follow them i guess....cos i hate it to the core and i'm a sort of rebel...anyways...no such experience till now...so lets wait till v cross the bridge...ciao soon....will b back with some more...soon...