Life is Waiting?

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2004)

The movie takes place in a surrealistic JFK airport where true characters or those who represent America seem puppets (see: the Security Manager) while those who live at the edges seem real. Tom Hanks plays skilfully the man who finds himself in a strange situation which he does not understand, but still finds means to go on, to fill his life, not to get depressed. And he turns out to be generous and capable of true relations with those people working inside the airport and non very integrated, it seems, in the American way of life.
On the opposite those who should represent American values in the sense of respect of freedom, of individuality, of civil human relations turn out to be bureaucrats, not capable to understand basic human situations which need help and understanding (the episode with the man asking for medicines for his dying father).
In this nowadays fairy the parallel world is still capable of sentiments and of true human relations while the baddies are cut off and seem left behind.