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from mn
Great movie about some not so great realities - middle aged burnout, prejudice, and post-9/11 immigration policies - but humorous and positive throughout. Strong performances by all leads.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Beautifully acted, compelling story. A "must see" and a good movie to discuss long after it is over. Complex on so many levels.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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A home run! This film hits at all levels -- warm, tender, funny, sad. The acting is natural and right on target and the director wisely lets his enormously talented cast do what they do best. The Visitor lingers long after the credits roll--thought provoking and ultimately liberating.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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"The Visitor" is a thoughtful movie willing to take its time letting you get to know four characters, who at one time or another, each take turns as the visitor in the title. Walter Vane is a distant man, carefully closing himself away from other people and experiences. He's a blank wall at first, but we grow to like him as we watch Walter open up to a couple of undocumented immigrants he finds occupying his New York apartment. The movie doesn't offer solutions to the thorny problem of immigration and deportation. Instead, it shows the human face of those caught up in the US fight against terrorism. But even to use the word "terrorism" in this review raises more of a specter than the movie itself does. Writer/Director Tom McCarthy is interested in politics, but not in divisive arguments. He's much more concerned with the people caught up in these issues. So "The Visitor" deftly sidesteps polemics to let each character express joy and suffering. That's not to say that the movie is depressing. Like the main character, "The Visitor" moves gently through its paces while the curtain is pulled away from the lives of four people brought together by circumstance. One of its best moments is the way Walter holds a letter up to a glass divider, so another character can read it. Walter turns his head discretely, so that he can neither read the letter nor study the reaction of the man reading. Another character would simply drop his head or his eyes, but Walter turn his head away from a private moment. Another movie, and many other actors, would hammer this point home, but "The Visitor" prefers to let you meditate on why Walter acts as he does and where his actions lead him.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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from Hermosa Beach, California
I would definitely recommend this movie. It was realistic, which meant it included some aspect that were sad, but not the type of movie that leaves one completely depressed. I appreciated that it was real, while being interesting and pleasant. I loved the characters. The movie makes the viewer think about the issues of immigration. One leaves the film realizing that the "black and white" world we often live in , or feel comfortable with, is not always so simple.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Wonderful. Very well cast, poignant film. Very real.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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from Los Angeles
Go see it. Poignant, entertaining and extremely well-acted. We thoroughly enjoyed it in all respects.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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from Brooklyn
This film about a widowed and lonely white male professor (of economics) who experiences growth as a result of cultural contact with a Syrian and Senegalese illegal immigrant couple that he discovers living in his NYC apartment is worth seeing. While djembe drumming serves as the social "glue" that bonds the primary characters, Tarik and Walter, US immigration policy serves as the destructive force that harms innocent people. As such, Tom McCarthy's drama intends to highlight the tragedy of belonging/not belonging that defines illegal immigrant status. The film's conceit that music can offer a sort of salvation for a man in the classical trope of "a life of quiet desperation" seems promising. Although the film has something worthwhile to say, its structure is rather simplistic: Act One- everyone gets to know each other, with a humorous and musical undertow; Act Two- tragedy strikes, enter the Hollywood film score. Ultimately its a depressing tale, as the audience is left with the image of Walter flailing away on his djembe in the subway. Catharsis, anger, self-expression? or just a powerless professor of cultural economics.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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