The director and actor Thomas McCarthy, directs his second film after his debut with "The Station" won awards at numerous festivals, a film delicate, intimate, but strong, able to excite the viewer and bring to the screen current and important issues. The college professor Walter Vale, played by Richard Jenkins, the skill in the outline for this character has been nominated for an Oscar, live a life alienated, lonely, made up of actions marked by monotony and lack of feelings that can warm the heart. After the death of his wife, decided to learn to play piano for a tribute, as she excelled at this instrument, but as the work they are doing an activity that is not passionate sincerity. By chance, after reluctantly agreeing to replace a colleague at a conference, he discovers that his apartment in New York two illegal immigrants living in the house which was rented illegally. Instead of calling the police or throw them out, decide pity their condition, to welcome them as guests for a while 'time. Soon between Walter and the young couple, a Syrian named Tarek, who plays the drum (the Djambi to be precise) in a jazz band, and his partner African Zainab, who designs jewelry, will create a relationship of friendship and humanity. Unfortunately, Tarek, a misunderstanding, he was arrested by the police and, because of the lack of proper documents, delivered in a center of immigration.
Jenkis and Richard Haaz Sleiman
The director makes a film, certainly focused on immigration and integration. The U.S. has always been a country that has been for millions of people a new land, new opportunities began to do so to a different life from what they left. America is a cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic country was proud to embody that value of freedom and acceptance. But the attack on the Twin Towers has anything changed not only the United States, highlighting the problems of our planet, catalyzed by globalization, which annulled the physical and economic boundaries and at the same time increases the gap between rich and underdeveloped. The fears and difficulties have forced the U.S. to a more aggressive policy to thwart immigration and uncompromising that the world is becoming a the most pressing problems of this new millennium and terrorism, other distress in the Western world which sees the Islamic increasingly fierce and intolerant.
Jekesei Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass and Richard Jenkins
And this is the "post - September 11 rejection of the alien paranoia and hostility that Tarek is arrested without having done anything wrong, and taken to a center of immigration that seems to be more like a prison in which the families of the detainees are not entitled to have information about their relatives. As it was in "Frozen River ", another film of this 2009 Oscar, even here the issue of immigration is linked to that of friendship and human relations. The professor Walter Vale, after this experience, he will understand that the secrecy and solitude dwell inside him, that his heart may still beat to the rhythm of the drum that he learned to play and that the passions are still able to give meaning to his life. In this context that the figure of the mother Tarek, played by the expressive and talented Hiam Abbass ("Lemon Tree"), and between tears and hugs, affection for a man will try again (after the death of her husband occurred because of another act of unfair punishment and imprisonment), establishing a relationship with Walter because of solidarity and harmony.
Richard Jenkins and Hiam Abbass
The differences of skin and religion, as well as those of social background, they cancel in the magic of music that unites people in a universal language (very nice, In this regard, the scene of people of all ethnic and social playing together in Central Park share the same passion) and the strength of feeling that knows no barriers.
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