"The Terminus of Happiness" is a touching romance film about a Cromeran named Victor Navorski in the 1980s. He had planned to fly back to his home country from New York's JFK Airport, but just before he bought his ticket, a coup d'état took place in Cromia and he was denied permission to leave the country by the United States. The film revolves around the story of Victor's 9-month stay at the airport, and the audience sees the shining point of humanity in this "foreigner".
The Happy Terminus is a 2004 romance film by director Stephen Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones. The film was scored a high score of 8.8 by Douban, which touched countless audiences.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > life is waiting, and we always have hope</h1>
In the movie "Happiness Terminal", the director uses a line to expose the core of the film, "Life is waiting" - life is waiting.
Victor was stranded at an international airport in the United States because of civil unrest in his home country. I live in a small area in a foreign country with basically no money on my body, and I live on some meal coupons. The head of the airport thought he would sneak away, either to New York City or sneak into the cabins of other countries. However, unexpectedly, he not only did not leave the fixed area, but also began to work in the airport to earn money.
Many people say that Victor's happiness is because he not only made a lot of good friends at the airport, but also eventually waited for the flight back to his home country, and even got the favor of the flight attendant. So Victor in the movie is happy, but people only see the good side of his final result, but ignore all the ups and downs he has experienced. In my opinion, it is precisely because Victor knows the philosophy of holding on to hope in waiting that he has a happy ending.
Victor has a detail that runs through the film, and that is that he allows himself to appear as decently as possible in any situation. Whether it's when he's just told that he's stuck at the airport and he's frustrated, or he's dressed every time he goes on a visa or goes on a date with a flight attendant.
There is an old Chinese saying: "People rely on clothing", which means that your appearance is the first impression you give people, and your clothing reflects your inner. Victor in the movie is a person who is indifferent in heart and in good condition under any circumstances, as the old Chinese saying goes: "Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself." ”
Victor is calm at heart and optimistic by nature. He only focuses on the beautiful things he wants, and does not change his original intention because of the outside world. When Victor learned of the coup d'état in his home country, he was not worried that he would not be able to return to China or even never thought that he would never be able to go back, he was constantly familiar with the airport environment and found a suitable state of existence for himself. He bathed himself in the toilet to keep himself clean, not at all as a victim; he began to make a small fortune at the airport to feed himself. Sleeping in the waiting hall at night and earning hamburger money at the airport during the day by collecting carts, he still chose other methods to make his life better, even if he was repeatedly harassed by the airport supervisor.
Victor in the movie, like each of us ordinary people, has his own expectations for life. Maybe it's the success of the career, maybe it's the consummation of the family, and so on. But fate has given us countless tribulations and ups and downs, especially when we feel that everything is beginning to have hope and unexpected difficulties. But isn't this life, we continue to adhere to ideals in large and small difficulties, maintain optimism, and laugh at external problems.
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When it comes to faith, many people feel that it is necessary to find spiritual sustenance through a religious ritual. In fact, in my opinion, faith is the sublimation of faith in life.
Some people feel that helping others is happy, so he regards this kind of "helping others" as his lifelong belief, and often gives convenience to others in daily life; some people regard obtaining a lot of money as their faith, and they are busy making money in their lives; some people take the dissemination of knowledge as their own faith, and burn their lives to be a good teacher.
In "The Happy Terminus", Victor makes patriotism his belief.
When the airport administrator proposed that as long as he pretended to be afraid of his motherland, he could use the special clause to return to his homeland, but he refused, he said: "The motherland is a place of peace of mind"; when the airport administrator deliberately told him the time of the guard change of guard and wanted to give him a set, so that he could arrest Victor on the grounds of "smuggling", but Victor did not leave the airport for half a step; when his favorite goddess invited him to new York City to eat together, he still chose to refuse. For the faith rooted in his heart does not allow him to do anything wrong.
If the difficulties of the guards in the movie symbolize a series of disasters we suffer from the outside world, then the invitation of the flight attendant symbolizes the desire in people's hearts. When desire is stirring in your heart, can you still hold on to your faith? When the outside world is making every effort, can you still hold on to your faith and not retreat?
Victor's image in the film is constantly amplified by these temptations and dilemmas, and he is gradually no longer just a downcast person, but an ascetic. A practitioner who focuses on his own practice and is not swayed by external and inner desires.
If the meaning of life is to wait, then waiting means fulfilling faith.
When we are faced with a series of life problems, we should not blame too many external interference factors, nor should we blame how difficult our situation is, but focus on our original intentions, so that we can finally touch the ideal paradise.