幸福终点站英文读后感

第一篇：幸福终点站英文读后感

The terminal

A poor fool

Viktor Navorski, a poor fool from Krakozhia, met not the democracy and freedom in Uncle Sam’s publicity when he came to United States but rejection.He was forbidden to come into his dream state because of the rebellion in his motherland.Without the passport, he couldn’t come back to Krakozhia and come into New York City.He was trapped on the island of politics and indifference.Faced with this dilemma, he must adapt to this environment and survive from it.He was the modern Robinson.The system and the human nature.In Chinese proverb, we have a saying that” Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards.” A family, a department, a company and a country all need a system to maintain the operation.The system is the law of doing things, but it is not perfect and has a variety of flaw.John Rawls, the famous political intellectual, said:” Any behavior of sacrificing interests of few people for the most public is immoral.” Although our system is built on the basis of safeguarding the interests of most people and is immoral in the words of Rawls, we couldn’t do non-compliance of the system and blame our mistakes on imperfection.Let us imagine that what will happen when the system meets people’s feelings.Our Chinese people always say that Law is no more than human relationship, is it true? In the movie, Viktor helped this man keeping his father’s saving drugs with his wit when the Russian man was detained by the Customs and Border Protection for some so-called illegal things.We all criticize the indifference of the director, Frank Dixon and praise Viktor for his wit and courage.But the officers strike on their principles and safeguard the system, are they wrong? We break a running well system just for one’s adversity, are we right? In our real life, most good system is damaged because of the pretence of sympathizing with others.So I argue that the officers do nothing wrong.We can sympathize with the week, but not at the expense of damaging our running well system.Waiting

The title of this movie is the terminal, what does it mean? Perhaps it means that Viktor can return to motherland after finishing his father’s last wish.Perhaps it means that Viktor and his compatriots have suffered their painful life.Perhaps it means the end of Viktor’s journey.Waiting, the most frequent word that Viktor mentioned in the movie.When Frank Dixon cheated that he could sneak into New York, Viktor said I would wait.When he talked with the airhostess, Amelia Warren, Viktor said “I am waiting”.Waiting may be a negative way to solve one thing, but in some cases could be the most effective one.Faced with unexpected difficulties, the indifference of people around and the irony of the fate, Viktor used the approach of waiting to struggle.He warmed people’s cold hearts.He let the lost people find themselves.He encouraged people who were teased by the fate to choose resistance.He told us the truth, “the terminal is the starting point.”

第二篇：幸福终点站读后感

跨文化交际结业作业

学号：1014120023

姓名：赵紫颀

Life is waiting —— The Terminal

“I’ve been waiting my whole life, just don’t know what the hell for.” In the movie, this is Amelia’s confusion.In everyone’s life, it can be different in details, but the same in essence.Viktor, a man came from a small country Krakozhia, who was trapped in the airport because of the war in his country.He was waiting, waiting for his freedom, waiting for peace in his country, waiting for the permission for him to go into America legally and realizing his father’s dream.Viktor’s father is waiting.He spent 40 years on collecting the signs of the 57 members of his favorite band.After he died, he was still waiting, waiting in heaven, waiting for his son to get the last sign for him.Frank, director of Customs and Border Protection of JFK, is waiting.Waiting for the old principle’s retiring, and also waiting for Viktor’s leaving.Amelia, a kind of woman who can get any guy she wants, had waited for a married man’s promise from 18 years old to 39 years old in the hotel.Enrique, a driver of a restaurant car, who was waiting for a chance of dating with Officer Torres and getting her love.Gupta, a janitor, who was wanted for assaulting a police officer back in India in 1979, was waiting for going home, for meeting his family.People in the airport are waiting, some are waiting for picking up;some are waiting for meeting with families or friends;some are waiting for a delayed flight.But there are some people who even don’t know what they are waiting for.Business man are waiting for big deals so that they can make more money;young ladies are waiting for a perfect husband;students are waiting for getting good grades and being admitted into universities they dreamed;politicians are waiting for a higher position.While waiting, some are working hard to achieve their goals sooner, but some are just wasting time.While watching the movie, you will find that some plots are seemed to have met before.When Gupta is sitting there to wait for the careless people’s falling down on

the wet floor;when Enrique ask Viktor to help him get some information of the girl he loves, but even has not tried to talk with the girl by himself;when Amelia is in the hotel with her baggage waiting for a call, but never thinks about change the way she lives.Sometimes, you can be unconcerned, timid, and even stubborn, but once it’s time to make effort, you should just put every piece of you in what you are searching for.Another concern of this movie is American Individualism.People in different countries have different values.These values are decided by their background and culture.Individualism is the dominant idea in America, and Chinese idea is collectivism.Individualism is the very core of American culture and the main value in America.You can see that individualism has been influencing all the fields.The self--reliance, individual freedom, equal competition which are emphasized is different from the concept of individualism in China.Individualism is a western concept, and the origin can be traced back to the period of Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation.In the period of immigration and Westward movement, Individualism was intensified.Although over self--centered can bring negative effect, from the whole historical point of view, there is no big social events which violate the stable situation, this is because the concept of commitment has been in the heart of Americans for a long time.In this movie, after Viktor lost the food vouchers, he happened to find that he could earn money by collecting trolleys and putting them in lines.That is what Americans praised, to be independent.Viktor could not speak fluent English, but he still tried hard to feed himself.Nowadays, you can see many beggars on the street or the bus, begging others to give him or her some money, even many of them can earn money by working with their hands.Americans believe that the individual is the atom of the society, independent on others or the collective, the individual right is sacred and cannot be violated.One’s proficiency should be brought to full play, while one’s personal preference and hobbies should have great chance to develop.In this case Americans are encouraged to be independent even in their childhood.They form their own opinion, make their own decision, solve their own problem and develop their own originality.When they grow up, they leave home and make a living.The college students support themselves with part-time jobs or scholarship or loan, few of them will depend on their relatives or friends.In the restaurants, even the family members will sometimes pay their own bill.However, you can not say that Chinese collectivism is not good.Collectivism pertains to societies in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong cohesive in-groups, which throughout people’s lifetime continue to protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.China is an agricultural culture nation, the farmers live near their lands, and most land link together, so people always inhabit a region and take care of each other, talking about anything.In fact, the principle of collectivism is “harmony” that our Chinese people are striving for 5000 years.Chinese tend to attach importance to harmony and public responsibility.They are desire to underestimate their skills and contribution to group efforts.They always pursuit the way to be modest, sacrificing under the middle way and harmonious cooperation.And they are easy to obey the authority, respect the elder, unite peers, make promise and try their best to create a harmonious and ordered society.What’s more, for Chinese people, it is vital to obey collectivism and sacrifice individual interests to protect public interests when it is necessary.In a word, the first task for Chinese is to maintenance united county and harmonious society, avoid contradiction and consider others’ feelings all the time.The last but the most important we should learn from Viktor is that whatever difficulties you meet, don’t lose your faith.Just do as Viktor do, wait and try your best.Don’t give others the chance to look down upon you.

第三篇：幸福终点站英文观后感

Review of The Terminal An airline terminal is, by definition, a place a traveler passes through on the way from one place to another, and we have to wait here for more or less a boring and anxious time.Also, the word “terminal” has a darker connotation in medical science: death.However, The Terminal, one of Steven Spielberg’s masterpieces, shows us a totally different terminal of paradise where there is romance, friendliness and kindness.The plot of the film begins with Viktor who flies to New York from the imaginary eastern European republic of Krakozia.When he just arrives at J.F.K.International Airport, a military abolishes his country’s government so that he is homeless.A large amount of complicated bureaucracy and regulations strand him at the airport where he remains for nearly a year, so he is neither able to back nor go forward.That is, he is detained by the airport authorities at the same time he is utterly trapped and completely free.Anyway, Viktor is innocent of anything, but he becomes a big trouble for an ambitious, humorless Homeland Security official named Frank Dixon, who is about to get a big promotion.He racks his wits about getting rid of Viktor who is regarded a troublesome existence.As we can see, Viktor is equivalently in a frustrating state of imprisonment.However, Steven Spielberg emphasizes freedom rather than constraint.They concentrate on the humor of Viktor’s situation rather than its seriousness.They get Viktor lover, friends and popularity so that he can have a easy life at the airport which is far from home.As a result, an innocent fairy tale of friendliness and pleasure instead of a horror story is shown to us.In fact, if it happens to us in real life, we will have a sense of loneliness and displacement, and we will be in a panic.But in the movie, Viktor is certainly not in such an atmosphere.At first, he seems like a holy fool with a funny accent, and everybody distrusts him, but the determination of his attitude to tell us his father’s story wins him credit and understanding.Not until then can we learn that he is a skilled carpenter and devoted son.Finally, he not only obtains friendliness but love.The whole film shows us Viktor’s innocence, humor, diligence, and authentic personality, which tell us, common people who are luckier than him, that we can’t stop our pursuit for justice, benevolence, understanding, promise and happiness.What’s more, it also teaches us to confront with unfortunate situations dauntlessly by the classic plot of justice eventually will defeat evil.Actually, this movie is loosely based on the real experience of an Iranian traveler who was abandoned for a much longer period in a Paris airport after the fall of the Shah.Therefore, lots of people think that the director, Steven Spielberg, and screenwriters turn the real story of seriousness and misfortune into a fantasy fairy tale.Nevertheless, on my part, the fact is that art comes from real life but higher than the reality.As a form of art, movies can show us much truth than other art forms, but it just like the art itself, having the purposes of conveying the true, the good and the beautiful.Therefore, what we can learn and realize is the most important thing through these movies.As I referred before, this movie as well as Viktor teaches us that we can’t stop our pursuit for justice, benevolence, understanding, promise and happiness.And more importantly, it teaches us to confront with unfortunate situations dauntlessly.I believe this is more significant.

第四篇：幸福终点站英文影评

幸福终点站影评

维克多——本影片的主角向我们诠释了幸福的真正内涵在于等待。刚看这个电影的时候，我被他在机场里因为不懂英语，在人生地不熟的环境里闹出的各种笑话逗得大笑，我开始以为这又是一个小人物凭借惊人的能力和运气逆袭的故事，然而当我随着观影的深入，我越发的觉得喜欢上了他的这种呆相。我也渐渐的明白了，他的全部我开始不理解的东西，竟是我们不断在寻找的东西，幸福。

开始的维克多在机场里没有工作，只能依靠极为底层的活来养活自己，他为自己搭建了一个极为简陋的床，并且一直在这种环境下生存了九个月。他一直这样卑微的生活，只是为了一个单纯又伟大的承诺，帮助他的父亲完成临终的遗愿。为了这一目标，他只是安静的等待进入纽约的机会。等待看起来是一件十分容易的事情，其实却在消耗着我们的信心，在一个看不见希望的环境中坚持自己原来的理想不变，在如今这个急躁的环境中是一件最难得事。不因为别人的成败而改变自己，不因为外界的眼观而改变自己，不因为环境的艰难而改变自己，不是任何一个有信念的人都可以完成的。能这样做的人，不仅有极为坚定的信仰，还会有自我牺牲的精神，哪怕一生都没有等来自己想要的，都不会放弃。

当然，只有他自己的坚持，也是很难完成前人没有完成的不可能的任务的。他有这种牺牲自我的精神，不去太多计较自己的得失，自然而然的帮助了很多人。在影片的最后，他的爱甚至感化了他原来的敌人，帮助他成功进入了纽约。

这个影片最后虽然只是一个很平常的结尾，而且后人的故事也不会因为他的存在而影响太多，也许这和这个时代现在所倡导的成功有一些差异，但这故事让人看完之后多了很多温暖，也许这正是自古以来人类血脉里流淌的最初的幸福的感觉吧。

第五篇：幸福终点站 英文影评

Review of The Terminal

Airport, a place that uncounted people come and go everyday.Have you ever thought if you have something important to do, but can't do it right now? Maybe you will feel worried and helpless.The Terminal tells a story about a man named Viktor Navorski(Tom Hanks acted)who comes from Krakozhia, was told that his motherland was at war.Soon, he became a person with no personality, he could neither enter into the America Border, nor return to his country, because of his unacceptable visa, therefore, he had to stay in the Kennedy International Airport until the war has stopped.After seeing the movie, I was deeply impressed by Viktor.In order to achieve his father's last wish, all he could do was to wait, he was waiting a chance to leave.It is hard to image, a man knew little English, with no money, no food.How can he live, make friends, even love? Rely on a strong faith, Viktor did it!During his nine-month stay in the airport, he washed himself in toilet, slept in the lounge, and even found a job as a construction worker.Perhaps you will feel, he was a poor guy.But he never give up.He earned money through his hands in order to feed himself.Made friends with the airport staff.And he also met a beautiful airline stewardess named Amelia Warren(Catherine Zeta-Jones acted).I think, we must have a spirit like Viktor.I am also impressed by some splendid dialogue.Like: Amelia: “Are you coming or going?” Viktor Navorski: “I don't know.Both.” From these sentences, we can see, Viktor was at sea.He didn't know what will happen next, but he has a strong willing, that is, he must fulfill his father's promise, go to New York to get the signature.And he got it finally!The most appeals to me, that's the “Life is waiting.” Viktor was waiting to go to New York, waiting to achieve his father's last wish, waiting for peace.His action proved that what is love, what is the definition of happiness...After Viktor got the signature, he got on a taxi and said “I going home.” Then he went on his way home with hope, promise, love and happiness.I trust, happiness is everywhere.In short, The Terminal is a well worth seeing film.