Movie : The Terminal ( very recommended )

The Terminal

Viktor Navorski befriends the staff at the terminal, including flight attendant Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta-Jones), while being under the watchful eye of Immigration Officer Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), who wants Navorski removed from the airport. Initially being deprived of food by Dixon as a method of trying to get Navorski arrested and made someone else's problem, Navorski takes on the task of retrieving vacant baggage trollies for the 25 cent reward. He uses this money to buy food until eventually Dixon prevents him from collecting. He then makes his first friend, a catering car driver named Enrique (Diego Luna) who asks him to approach a female security officer named Dolores (Zoë Saldana) for him in exchange for food. After meeting Amelia and being asked out to dinner, Navorski tries to earn money in order to ask Amelia out instead. He finally gets an off-the-books job as a construction worker at the airport earning $19 per hour.

One day, Viktor explains to Amelia that the purpose of his visit to New York is to collect an autograph of the jazz tenor saxophonist Benny Golson. His late father was a jazz enthusiast. He had discovered the "Great Day in Harlem" photograph in a Hungarian newspaper in 1958, and

vowed to get an autograph of all the 57 jazz musicians featured on the photograph.

A few months later, the news reports that the war in Krakozhia is over, but Dixon will still not allow Viktor to enter the United States. Amelia reveals that she had asked her 'friend', actually a married government official with whom she had long been having an intermittent affair, to assist Viktor in obtaining permission to travel within the US, but Viktor is disappointed to learn she has renewed her relationship with the man during this process.

To make matters worse, Dixon needs to sign the form granting Viktor the right to remain in the United States, but refuses, instead deciding to deport him out of spite. Thanks to the timely interference of the friends Viktor has made during his stay in the terminal, he is allowed to leave the airport. As Viktor prepares to take a taxi to the Ramada Inn, 161 Lexington Avenue, in New York, where Benny Golson is performing, he observes Amelia exiting from a cab, where she gives him a wistful smile. He attends the show and collects the autograph, finally completing the collection. Afterwards, Viktor leaves and hails a taxi, telling the driver: 'I am going home.'

** Woww.., keren banget tuh muvie....Tom hanks, akting nya emg gk perlu di raguin banget.. bener2 two tumbs up buat dia.. Pertama ngeliat sih film nya biasa2 aja.. dan malah sedikit under estimate sm ninh muvi, soalnya casing-an film nya, rd aneh.. 10 menit pertama masih biasa2 aja.., kl udah nyampe 40 menitan, baru kerasa kl film ini bagus. Untung lah background kuliah di fakultas hukum sedikit membantu buat memahami apa maksud dari film ini. HUm, talk about thiss..jd pengin ntn film ini lagi. Perjuangan seorang Viktor yang tanpa status kejelasan kewarganegaraan karena negara nya sedang mengalami kudeta dan pemerintahan dalam keadaan kosong, so negara nya dianggap tidak ada. Karena negaranya tidak diakui dia tidak mendapatkan izin dari petugas imigrasi bandara untuk memasuki kawasan negara New york dan akhirnya dia hanya boleh tinggal di bandara. Padahal tujuan kedatangannya ke US dikarenakan ayahnya memberikan wasiat bahwa dia harus menemui pemaen musik jazz yang sangat digemari almarhum bapaknya. Dia diberi wasiat untuk memintakan tanda tang n pemain jazz itu. Sebernernya alasan dia dateng ke US itu emang rada silly , demi sebuah tanda tangan dan untuk menghormati wasiat dari ayahnya, jarak US yang sebegitu jauh nya dari negara asalnya dia tempuh. Dia tidak akan pernah pulang ke negaranya sebelum mendapatkan tanda tangan itu. Mesakne yo nek dipikir2. And finally, he spends his life in airport ( suatu hal yang belum pernah terbayangkan sebelumnya, apalagi di jadiin sebuah ide cerita yang dii jadiin film ). Love story begins after he meets Amelia, a stewardess. Love at the first sight . Film ini setipe macem 'saving private ryan'.., sebuah pengorbanan hanya untuk sebuah hal kecil. Sebenernya ceritanya sedikit klise, tragis ( red : his relationship with amelia ), but over all..this movie is awesome...