What is the motivation for the airport manager to keep torturing the male protagonist?

Madisyn 2022-04-19 09:01:13

Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Victor, from a small Eastern European country, is in trouble at New York's JFK Airport - his home country has just undergone a coup d'etat and he's become a man without identity. So he was forced to stay at the airport for months at a time. With his sincerity and kindness, he moved the airport staff who had seen his jokes. He successfully resolved several problems and became a man of the airport. He also met the beautiful flight attendant Catherine Zeta-Jones. However, the person in charge of the airport deliberately couldn't get along with him, looking for trouble with him everywhere, and he used kindness and warmth to get through the difficulties time and time again.

The theme of this film is waiting, Victor is waiting for his identity, Catherine Zeta-Jones is waiting for her love, the airport chief is waiting for his promotion, the food delivery man is waiting for his crush, the cleaner is waiting His wife and children... It can be said that Spielberg can handle it, but it is quite Hollywood. What is the motive for the airport manager to torture the male protagonist? Is it just a psychopath who wants to torture him, I have never understood that.

Many people like Catherine Zeta-Jones very much and think that she is one of the best beauties in China and abroad, but I don't feel that way. However, I have to admit that she has a very good image in this film.

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Extended Reading
  • Tiara 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    The script is very thoughtful, and the dialogue is simple but meaningful. Uncle Tom's acting is very mellow. All in all, a movie that makes you laugh and make you cry.

  • Mona 2022-03-21 09:01:11

    It turns out that the airport can be small, so small that it can trap the body and mind like a confinement cage; it turns out that the airport can be big, so big that it can taste the world's various things like a station of life. It all depends on how you see and face it. From Forrest Gump to Victor, there is really a moving stupidity.

The Terminal quotes

  • Enrique Cruz: So, she had a boyfriend, for how long?

    [nods yes, holds up two fingers]

    Enrique Cruz: Two years, what happened?

    Viktor Navorski: He chit.

    Enrique Cruz: What?

    Viktor Navorski: He chit.

    Enrique Cruz: Eat shit?

    Viktor Navorski: He chit, he chit, he chit.

    Enrique Cruz: Okay, try to repeat exactly what she said.

    Viktor Navorski: He chit, she catch him so...

    Enrique Cruz: Oh! He cheats!

    Viktor Navorski: Yes, yes, yes! What we call Krushkach. We say Krushkach. One man, two womans. So, hmm, crowded. You know? Ha!

    Enrique Cruz: Okay, he *cheats*! You say cheats.

    Viktor Navorski: Hm-hum. He chit.

    Enrique Cruz: No, no. *Cheat*.

    Viktor Navorski: Enrique, you, no chit.

    Enrique Cruz: No cheat.

    Viktor Navorski: No chit.

    Enrique Cruz: Yeah, yeah, I won't. I won't. I won't cheat. Not chit.

    Viktor Navorski: She's a nice... nice girl, she won't take your chitting.

  • Frank Dixon: You could have any man you wanted... why Viktor Navorski?

    Amelia: That's something a guy like you could never understand.