Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Hollywood Meets Real Life

It looks as though real life has started imitating "art" instead of the other way around. The movie "The Terminal" came out earlier this year staring Tom Hanks as a man who is stuck living at an airport due to the fact that he can not enter into a country because of legal reasons. Now, just a few months later, it has happened to a real man who has been refused admission into Great Britain. But, unlike Tom Hank's character in the movie, this man has made the choice to stay in the airport, even though he is free to leave it and enter Kenya, where the airport is located. According to this article, the original movie was based upon a similar incident that happened to an Iranian in a French airport. I wonder if this incident concerning the man in Kenya is being based upon the movie.

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