Comment:Just watched The Terminal

After "a hell of a night", I had a great night yesterday. An unpleasant night for the next day's superb experience, huh? Now, is that what you call redemption?

Since another typhoon is coming (bummer), we went to see it on the first day it got on the big screen (why "we"? you can post your guesses as comments ^^), and with ahead planning of just well an hour I guess, was that exciting!

Great movie

Can't believe Tom Hanks is still sooooo good! Although he is American he still acts so good that you could swear he was a foreigner, and from an imaginary inexistent country. The point is that he not just acts as if his English isn't good. (With the answer "yes" for every question. Just like what my aunt said a Mexican in America would do) He showed us warmth, love, kindness, generosity and integrity that you could only find in some less wealthy places. (Which is what I like about the people from southern Taiwan, they are so kind to people) And these are just what we are losing in an urban society, pulling the distance between people farther and farther apart. And these qualities are what makes everybody crazy for him. Something, but I don't know how to say it, makes people feel that this guy is much easer to get together with then the guy in charge of airport safety, or even that flight attendant he liked. It's what makes people think he is interesting or likeable. And from this movie and the movie Forest Gump, we can see that this is what Tom Hanks is best at.

"We are all waiting..."

That's what the guy told the flight attendant. Yes, we are all waiting for something. Waiting for the freedom of being a college student. Waiting for a girl to come into your life. Waiting for a chance to work for your own money. Waiting for the time when you can afford a car...etc. For me, some are pass tense, some are still somewhere in the future. I guess you wait for something because you believe it will come, and this faith in the future is what we call HOPE, something that gives us the will and the power to live on.

Background of the story

The guy came from a country that was unstable, which made him a "somebody from nowhere". This reminds us of how some people in East Europe are still struggling. Even at the exact same time I'm typing this, and listening to music, there's still people in Russia and Chechnya suffering from some kind of sad power struggle or war or something else... Which reminds me how fortunate we are, living in a wealthy and recently peaceful Asian country such as Taiwan. Although we live quite well now, we cannot forget the fact that our neighbor China is blood thirsty (looking back in history, I wonder why the communists of the late USSR and North Korea also seem blood thirsty? I don't think Marx promoted communism as a pleasure to kill), and prepared to attack us at any moment. But all we can do for now is wish that someday the communists would change their minds and realize the preciousness of peace.

Ok, so much for the politics (I still think too much, do I?) After loads of thrillers full of special effects and nothing more (e.g. The Fifth Element, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and The Day After Tomorrow), I'm very happy that there's finally a new movie that emphasizes on our hearts, not more booms, splashes, flashes, whams and bangs. We've waited long enough for a good story, not just big scenes, dazzling colors and ear splitting sounds. Although The Terminal still has the old "kissing scene" that was once ubiquitous in every Hollywood Movie, as a whole it is still great. And I would be glad to recommend it, really.