Hi Guys!, here is my entry for the Triple AAA contest FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (#01): "Favorite Directors" Sponsor by @wiseagent and the TripleA team; You guys should check it out and participate

Director of week #4: Steven Spielberg

When I decided to take part in the @wiseagent competition where the main goal was to highlight our favorites directors, the first one that came into my head was Steven Spielberg, a man who for me represents the non-visible face of the film industry, a man who has undoubtedly participated in more films than we can tell, but above all a director who is rarely wrong about his creative decisions and who usually gives us quality films with stories and an outstanding cinematographies that simply catches us and makes us submerge ourselves in the different worlds that he is capable of creating.

The hard part of choosing Steven Spielberg as my director for this final stretch of the favorites directors' contest is being able to choose from the dozens of wonderful films this director has, each one more outstanding than the previous one. However, after much thought I decided to choose one that I enjoy and still enjoy no matter how many times I see it, a film really marvelous for the way it elevates a simple story with tremendous social and migratory tints, I'm talking about the Terminal.

Source

The Terminal is a film that besides having my favorite director also has one of my favorite actors as protagonist, an actor who always stands out for the way he mimics and develops his interpretations, in short, this is a film that stands out in all senses thanks to two extremely important and well-developed elements. This is a film that develops in a very harmonic way with a not accelerated rhythm that allows us to appreciate the outstanding work of the actors and the director at the time of fusing different elements to give life to a story told from an entertaining angle that lightens the tone that usually a migratory and political crisis would have, a film where its characters are elevated to the maximum by the incredible quality of the performances that they deliver.

Source

The plot of this film places us in the center of the conflict of a man whose country has just fallen into war and that therefore generates that his migratory visa is revoked trapping him inside the airport of one of the most incredible cities of the United States, a city that he cannot visit while the crisis in his country ends and his migratory privileges can be restored. Basically we find a man who after landing in New York looking to fulfill the promise he made to his father, realizes that a civil war has just broken out in his country that totally destabilizes foreign policy and makes him forced to remain captive in a certain way in the airport without any possibility of leaving. The story unfolds with changing atmospheres since first we have the emotional blow that had to face our protagonist when realizing what had happened in his country, to immediately move to the suspense and in a certain way agony that represents for the protagonist to have to get the way to survive inside the airport without any conventional help.

Source

The whole movie is building some really great subplot where we see how what initially could have been a colossal tragedy that could have led the film to become something dramatic and super tense, ended up being something entertaining and even funny where we see how a man who did not speak English could break through the airport corridors to build a kind of life inside, making friends, creating ties with all kinds of people and even helping to solve some immigration problems that other passengers faced. Undoubtedly all the subplots of this film feel good, feel essential because through them we know more character and more about the way of being of our protagonist.

Source

This is indisputably a film where you explore many social issues that regularly afflict visitors and migrants going to the United States, people who are often treated in atypical ways and are often judged only for not coming from "exotic" countries, if this is a film that besides the constant funny and entertaining moments also gives us intense scenes, emotional and full of meaning, where we see memorable moments that give a really great plus to the whole plot.

The Terminal is one of my favorite movies of all time because it's a movie that allows me to appreciate cinema from its most essential point where you don't need special effects or constant camera games to enhance a story. In this film, it is once again evident that when you manage to give life to a simple story through its characters everything will go well, and this film does it fantastically with different characters who feel loved and above all who build exceptional group chemistry.

Source

In short, this is a film where the simple goes well and even stands out thanks to the incredible work of a great director, a director who managed to build something fantastic that never let us down. This is a movie that starts well and ends even better with a really exciting and very emotional twist that ends up giving the last touch of grace to a wonderful film.

---