Wednesday, February 13, 2008
YOUR HUDDLED MASSES
Today's film was Emanuele Crialese’s
Nuovomondo / The Golden Door (2007)
This is the immigrant story from the other side.
I love these films. I need a feel of what happened with my people when they came and this film does a better job than most in showing the powerful tug of a new life.
The obstacles are formidable.
These are dramatized in an unsentimental way that keeps us from repressing the deep fear and pain that the journey to this country entailed.
It is also not cruel in shoving our faces into the situation. We are at a nice distance where we can feel it all out and at the same time observe many things that we would not have otherwise imagined were true for these people. Our people.
There is magic in this film; the old world magic and the new. We get to see how things might have been imagined from the other side along with the reality.
It is a beautiful film.
There are some real surprises in it.
I loved it.
I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.
