The Terminal

I saw The Terminal last weekend. I enjoyed it more than I had expected. It’s not a great film but has some good acting and cinematography that nearly make up for a weak plot. The film’s story of a foreigner stranded in an airport is very loosely based on the bizarre true story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, a man who was trapped by his lack of papers in Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris for over eleven years. In 1999 he was finally given permission to leave the airport but decided that he didn’t want to leave. He remains in the airport terminal, now sixteen years after he first arrived there.