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Tucci?
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on October 24, 2004 at 9:57 PM
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friar tuck
sorry, but gee, both films seem very similar, as you break them down -- protagonist in unfamiliar place, stuck, nowhere to go, the flow of the tide/traffic -- i dunno... when Hanks delivered that line about the tide in castaway, i said to my Graceful One, "you know the tide is like a box of choc-o-lates..." i still wanna see it on video -- Hanks is really a good actor, and Tucci I've seen naked, so i feel a close connection! tg
posted by
tbgroucho
on October 24, 2004 at 7:12 PM
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let me put it this way...
if cast away talks about "no man is an island"; the terminal says "all life is just a half-way house." The story is great -- it explores life on different levels:
level 1: what happens if one suddenly loses his citizenship inside an airport terminal? (the movie also explores ways how to get around it)
level 2: given the loss of citizenship (you practically become a 'nobody'), how does one live with others and with oneself?
level 3: if life is a half-way house (like the terminal) how does one be "at-home" in it?
in cast away, one of the problems was how to get reintegrated into a life from which one has been taken out of; in "the terminal" the question is, how does one live in a place where circumstances has condemned one to be in -- much like existence.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on October 8, 2004 at 5:47 AM
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friar tuck
i was actually interested in seeing this film, too, but it came and went quickly to bad reviews...I don't really like Spielberg that much -- there's always just something too "cute" or "precious" about his films, as excellent as some of them are, like
amistad -- but i thought this could be pretty good. was it
too much like
cast away ?tg
posted by
tbgroucho
on October 8, 2004 at 3:20 AM
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