I'm on a movie marathon, I watch whatever that I can grab from the library and from the net.
The Terminal - is adapted from a real life story about a man who lived at an airport due to complexities & red-tape of getting proper paperwork approved. However, the real life story is very different from the storyline of the movie. (Eg: real life man is from Iran and he lived at the departure lounge of Terminal One, Charles de Gaulle Airport in France for 17 years, while reel life man (actor: Tom Hanks) is from a fictitious country that was made to resemble Russia, and lived at the airport in New York for 9 months until he resolved what he went there for and eventually got to go home).
Anyway, when they made this movie, it is reported that they did pay royalties to the real life character who was still living at the airport (in 2004) but that chap doesn't have a bank account and couldn't cash his cheques (can't they give him cash?). Since 2007, he moved to a homeless shelter. The man says that he is definitely not as happy as Tom Hanks in the movie. Although The Terminal is a make-believe movie, it brings about real life stuff, like the dilemma of being morally right, being empathizing, or being strict with the rules, when to let loose? And about how some people could never bear to be alone (they might rather be a serial dater, multiple date), and of course, about how some people are just unlucky that they are at the wrong place and the wrong time, fallen into a crack where no one could help them. But they are there. So here's my sketch----
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