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30 June 2007

Golden Door

This could have been a good movie, had it not been so weird. It was just a weird movie. OK, so there are these southern Italians who want to immigrate to the States at the turn of the century. Fair enough. But then you throw in this English woman, and it all gets really weird.

Their immigration journey and trans-Atlantic boat ride were interesting, but I'm not sure if it's at all accurate. It's just all weird.

For instance, at Ellis Island (immigration gateway in New York), where they have to prove their mental fitness....and they are given wooden puzzle pieces to fit back properly into the box. None of them could do it, except the English woman.

I just don't understand it. How could you not figure out how to put the pieces back in place? Now if it had been a 900-piece jigsaw puzzle, that I could understand. But this wooden puzzle was something that a three-year-old might play with.

Of course, the immigrants had these visions of the States being the land of plenty, where it rains money, and where there are rivers of milk. That I can understand. I am the grand daughter of European immigrants to the States. But, the surreal nature of the movie really got out of hand, when toward the end of the movie, the characters are seen, fully clothed, yet literally swimming in a river of milk. What gives?

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