If you travel by air, even occasionally, there are chances you have been stuck in an airport terminal at one time or another. Airports have become small microcosms of society. If you are going to be stuck somewhere, an airport can be a fascinating place to be. They are places of high emotion, people are either saying goodbye or saying hello. There are intense reunions or the anticipation of absence. You get to see a cross-section of humanity parading through, and if you look at it that way, it's not the worst place to spend a few hours.
That being said, most people still view getting delayed at the airport for a few hours as an inconvenience. But try to imagine those hours stretching into days, weeks and even months. That incredible circumstance is the premise of "The Terminal".
"The Terminal" tells the story of Viktor Navorski, a visitor to New York city from Easter Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at John F. Kennedy International Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal's international transit lounge until the war at home is over.
As the weeks and moths stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia. But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon, who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase.
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