The Terminal
Location
JAAC 1037
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
12-9-2017 7:00 PM
Description
Spielberg’s 2004 comedy/drama “The Terminal” feels somehow prescient about situations that have unfolded more recently in airports around the world as American immigration policy seems to change with the wave of a pen. Victor Navorski (Tom Hanks) becomes stranded in JFK airport in New York, unable to return home for political reasons and unable to leave the “international” space of the terminal because he can’t enter the country. While both the comedy and the drama arise from what happens when a person makes a home in an airport, the film also raises serious issues about what it is to be a stateless and so homeless person, a question of pressing importance in a world populated by increasing numbers of refugees, as will be discussed following a viewing of the film.
Recommended Citation
Walton, Melanie, "The Terminal" (2017). Humanities Symposium. 7.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2017/ff2017/7
The Terminal
JAAC 1037
Spielberg’s 2004 comedy/drama “The Terminal” feels somehow prescient about situations that have unfolded more recently in airports around the world as American immigration policy seems to change with the wave of a pen. Victor Navorski (Tom Hanks) becomes stranded in JFK airport in New York, unable to return home for political reasons and unable to leave the “international” space of the terminal because he can’t enter the country. While both the comedy and the drama arise from what happens when a person makes a home in an airport, the film also raises serious issues about what it is to be a stateless and so homeless person, a question of pressing importance in a world populated by increasing numbers of refugees, as will be discussed following a viewing of the film.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Global Citizenship, Leadership, Diversity, the Professions