The Terminal Movie Essay

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“Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg” have made the “The terminal” a delicate and sweet comedy building the film to a point where it makes one to hold the breath since it is precisely devised. The author tries to analyze a product of Hollywood through applying a cultural approach with the aim of revealing some pre-occupations and concerns of the citizens of the United States which involve commercial consumerism, progressivism, and their discrepancies. He also attempts to expose the relationships that exist between national identity, social identity, mental rate and the protagonist economic state. Through this approach, he aims to evaluate the extent to which the film reflects on the reality of humanity in intercultural and interpersonal communication. …show more content…
The movie shows how a man spends close to a year in an Airport terminal of the Paris Charles De Gaulle airport. This is because the airport authority does not let the young man out of the airport. The young movie star is willing to have is life in the airport until he is left to go. The live of the city is felt hardly by the movies legend Sir Alfred in the movie he is seen as a refugee from Iran and is not wanted by any nation. Sir Alfred spends close to 15 years in the movie using a red plastic bench near a luggage store. The airport setting describes how transport and communication has helped to bring up unity and …show more content…
The racial discrimination of the movies star is not so much felt in the setup of the terminal movie. Navorski being an example has done many things for those around him. Allowing the ego to go is a level of greatness that Amelia discovered when she helped Navorski get out of the airport terminal after over seven months. She enquired passports to se Navorski out of the airport. The movies acting on the airport, the use of Airline 747 shows the most modern fashion of the world technology. The dressing of the movies stars and the realness of the food in the setup brings the realness of the

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