One of my friends, who is a great fan of Tom Hanks, suggested two movies of him. As I hadn't watched those two movies yet, she insisted on watching them. Actually, she suggested it to me yesterday and I just finished writing. You won't believe it as I was scolding myself why didn’t I watch it before, It was such a heart-touching movie. So thought of sharing with you guys. If you haven’t watched it yet, then add it to your watchlist. Trust me it's a good one to watch.
Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) came to New York from a country named Krakozhia. When he went to check out from the airport he found out that his passport is not permitted for traveling inside the city. He is an illegal citizen. When they seized his passport and ticket told him that a civil war broke out in his country and as a result, no one can travel from or to his country and now he is a stateless immigrant there. Another problem is Navorski doesn’t understand English so he didn’t get what happened and what they have just told him. He just understood he is unacceptable and can't go to the city. They even give him some food voucher and some minute voucher for calling at his home and stay at the terminal as long as no decision comes. So currently he needs to just stay at the terminal.
As the movie progressed we got to see many sad things like watching the war news on tv but couldn’t understand what's written in English, losing the food vouchers, no good place for sleeping. Being rejected every day when he goes to apply for a visa to enter New York City. He manages his food somehow, made some friends even somehow he managed to win over the all shops workers heart by an incident took place in the terminal where Navorski showed his generosity.
Well in the meantime when Navorski wasn’t leaving the terminal Dixon who was Field Commissioner of the terminal and soon was going to get promoted wanted to get rid of this problem. So one day he made the gates guardless and triggered Navorski to get out of the terminal. Because if he goes out of the terminal then he will be illegal but that will not be his problem. The city will take that responsibility but somehow Navorski didn’t leave. That was also a good part of the movie to watch.
Another great part of the movie is Amelia Warren who is a flight attendant. He recently got cheated on by his boyfriend who is already married to another woman. Navroski hears that conversation and tries to talk to her. Gradually they became friends and Navroski realized that he was almost in love with her. Amelia firstly took Navroski as a contractor but as Dixon was furious about Navroski's being in the terminal he(d) asked Amelia to tell about Navroski. Even Amelia misunderstood Navroski. Navroski told her about his visit to New York.
This was the main part of the movie I was waiting to know from the beginning. Navroski always had a jar with him. Even I was curious about what's inside of it. Later he opened it and showed a picture of 57 jazz singers and his father was a great fan of jazz music. His father wrote them letters for their autographs and it took them 40 years to get those autographs and before that, his father died. Among all those jazz singers one was left to sign and for that Navorski came to New York to fulfill his father's desire to get the last signature. After hearing his reason for visiting here we get to see Amelia kissing Navroski.
The war ended after nine months. He had finally found the way to go to his home. Navroski was celebrating when Amelia comes and gives him an emergency visa for one day visit to New York which she managed by a sacrifice only for Navroski to fulfill his Father's desire. But Dixon didn’t sign on that and forced Navorski to leave his country by the flight. If he enters New York city then his friends on the terminal he made would have to pay the price. He blackmailed him and forced him to leave. Everyone was sad at this and his friends were also angry at him and were calling him a coward because he said he would fight for his rights. But the sad part started.
Well, in the very last scene we get to see Navroski in a taxi and when the taxi driver asked him where to go he replied with a smile, "I am going home." Everyone was relieved with that scene and I said to myself, "Ah! That was such a nice movie." Really it was. It would touch your heart and make you emotional with the innocence of his face. Maybe his struggle would make you sad too. Or you may get tears of happiness. In a sentence, I would say, it's an amazing heart-touching movie everyone would love it. I would like to rate it 9 out of 10.