The twin towers of the World Trade Center, which were buried in 9/11, seem to be an indelible scar on the Americans. Washington is constantly afraid that the unsettling elements in the mass immigration will open the wound again.
There's a shot in "The Visitor" where an ad on the wall of an illegal immigration detention center reads "The Strengh of America...America's immigrants." America is paradoxical, without immigration, perhaps this country never existed. Generations of immigrants have created this strange, powerful, and diverse world. But the inevitable sequelae of 9/11 forced the country to put on tinted glasses to look at the "immigrants" that once created itself. In the end, it was not the United States or terrorist organizations who were hurt, but the people who came here to pan for gold across the ocean with the American dream one after another. The still standing Statue of Liberty is already a decoration.
This is the situation that the film is about. The melodious piano music and the lively drum beats staggered until the end of the film. In addition, the two encounters in this film are quite memorable. Walter, an old professor who "pretends to be busy all the time" and "hasn't done a meaningful thing for a long time" (Walter summed up himself in this way), the syllabus of 2008 just painted out the 6 of 2006, until he encountered After Tarek, he said goodbye to the piano and fell in love with African drums at first sight. The gray wind candle only had such a trace of business in the dying years. The park drum meeting was the turning point of the friendship between the two, and the happy beat in the detention center was the sublimation of the friendship between the two. ;When Tarek's mother, who was looking for her son, met the professor, I felt that there would be a story between the two people. Later, the scene where the two embraced each other to sleep and warm each other still surprised me. It was to make all this happen not so abruptly. In the end, with the mother's pursuit of her deported son, she returned to her hometown. A gentle and imaginative evening love just left a string of ellipses. But I always feel that such a plot is a bit out of touch with the whole film.
At the end of the film, the old man was sitting on the subway bench and beating the drum left by Tarek. The train in front of him galloped past, and the rapid drum beat was faintly visible in the whistling sound. Very cold ending. The sound of drums is powerful, but it cannot break through the barriers of the cold system.
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