It doesn't feel very BREAHTAKING, I just feel a touch of sadness, and it's still unfinished...Especially at the end, the professor was beating alone on the subway station platform. The picture of the African drum is very helpless and sad, but when I see the stop sign with "broadway" written on the back of him, I can't help but smile when I think that he has never been to BROADWAY before.
I want to talk about my understanding of "VISITOR" "...
the word that appears most frequently is WALTER's "VISIT" when talking about visiting Tarek in the detention center, and in that sense, WALTER is a VISITOR, and on the other hand, at the beginning of the film, in According to Tarek and Zainab, Walter is an unknowing VISITOR. When he walked into his APARTMENT, he did not know that they lived here. In this sense, he was also a VISITOR;
however, the real VISITOR was Tarek and Zainab. Zainab, on the one hand, they are not the owners of this APARTMENT, but for WALTER, they are VISITORS, and for the country of UNITED STATES, they are even more VISITOR, because they are African-American immigrants without residency rights, which cannot be realized. The American dream.
I don't want to say too much about the American left-wing ideology, criticism of the immigration system, etc. I am not interested in politics, although I am deeply impressed by what TAREK said in it--
WALTER: "I know."
TAREK: "How do you know? You are out there!", (the saddest sentence for me)
Therefore, I prefer to think of this story as an episode that happened to someone at a certain time and place -- a college professor who is in his 60s and widowed, and lives a dull and unchanging life, and he even later disagrees with TAREK's mother candidly: "I pretend that i'm busy, that i'm working, that i'm writing. I'm not doing anything. " His life changed because of the sudden visit of these two VISITORS, TAREK The African drums he taught him brought melody to his life, and later his mother, MOUNA, gave the professor a little bit of hope for ROMANTIC...
The ending of the story is very sad, not a happy ending, but it is Explain - this is life, and when you think there is a ray of light in the dark and bottomless dullness, the sudden dark cloud will take it away again.
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