heart touching on immigrants' point of view

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2006)

This is a very nice piece of work by Steven Spielberg. I thought of this movie as being based on a true story of a man trapped at an airport for 2 years as i was watching the film. As an once non-English speaking immigrant who stepped into the foreign airport myself, I found the story very compelling and touching. Tom Hank's actions were terrific, although if there were some drawbacks it was hard to figure out a relative time frame, when and how long things have been happening for in the film.
I actually found the catch phrase "Do you have an appointment" quite funny, it would've been strange for non-English speaking non-migrants as the whole movie may not make sense. But everyones been to airports, and facing language barrier is one of the biggest discomforts. Waiting at a airport even for an hour or two seems terrible, but if that goes on for months even years what would it be like? The movie has answered that, as well as giving me an insight into Mr Navoski's airport life very well. Tom Hanks is a wonderful actor.