The Terminal

There are some movies that inspire you. Movies that motivate you, charge you up and fill up a new energy in you, making you able to achieve something that you’ve wanted to do for a long time, something that is too important to you, and it doesn’t matter how insignificant that something is to the rest of the world. It is important to you and that’s all that matters.

There are some movies that teach you to smile even through the roughest of times and toughest of circumstances. Not only it shall pass easily and swiftly but it would end up being a memorable experience for you. You will look back to it and smile. You will cherish that time for the rest of your life. You will be a symbol of motivation for everyone else. You will only make friends in the course of your life.

The Terminal is one such movie. There are plenty of lessons behind it’s humor. There is lot to be learned from someone as simple as Viktor Navorski. And no one else could have done it better than Tom Hanks. It’s sad that it turned out to be another under rated movie. But that’s how Steven Spielberg’s movies are. Most people just don’t understand the point. They just want to be entertained and nothing more. They don’t want to be inspired. They don’t want to be motivated. So movies like The Terminal and Minority Report don’t get good reviews by the viewers. The fact is that Spielberg makes more than just a movie that you watch in a theatre, chew pop-corn, spend a couple of hours and then forget about it. No, you got it wrong. His movies are not for average viewers. It takes more than that to actually understand his movies. Pick any movie that he directed. You will see a lesson in each one of them. Every single one.

I never skip a Steven Spielberg movie and I’ve never regretted. Same goes for Tom Hanks.