Watch "The Terminal"

This is one of those surprise movies that challenges how we view the world. Tom Hanks plays a traveller who has lost citizenship because his country has dissolved into war, and ends up caught in a crack in the immigration system- unable to enter the United States, but unable to return to his native country. He ends up living in the airport for nine months, using an abandoned gate as a refuge, and using local amenities for essentials- washroom as bathroom, bookstore as school, condiment stand as grocery store. We are led into an imaginative play between the mediated world of the airport, and the uncontrollable community of airport workers. At one end, you see the recognizable shopping world, complete with Starbucks and Borders, but on the other end, you see a darker world of what goes on behind the scenes- airport workers as part of a ridiculous cult, security personnel as voyageuristic egoists. As Rem Koolhaas would say, the airport environment is remarkably similar to the commodified environment that we live in today.