"Simply and Wonderfully"

I recently watched the movie The Terminal. I love this movie. Yes it has Tom Hanks in it and was directed by Steven Spielberg so it's automatically a good one. However, the reason that I love this movie is because it is simple. Not simple in the sense that it isn't complex, because it is an original idea. But simple in the sense that it is about a simple, but wonderful character. Victor (Tom Hanks) is a man that becomes stranded in the JFK airport when his country goes to war while he is on the plane to New York and is therefore a non-citizen and is not allowed to step into the United States or he will be arrested. Victor simply begins to live his life in this airport. He meets friends, has adventures and finds love in these confines. He doesn't stop living because of his restrictions. He lives simply, but with purpose. He is fulfilling a promise to his father, but until he is able to do so he continues to enjoy life. Simple does not mean unadventurous or boring. Simple is defined as "easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty". Living simply doesn't confine someone, but the opposite. He knows life is a gift and continues to make the best of it even though he is stuck in an airport while his country is at war. I believe Victor lives simply because he made a promise to his father and set out to follow through with it and does so. It is not complex, he made a promise and kept it. New York City the greatest city in the world was just outside the door from him, but he was still able to find happiness in the airport through the simplest things; Burger King, fixing things, helping friends, and the few and short meetings he had with the girl of his dreams. And when it is all finished and he finally goes out into New York and keeps his promise to his father by getting the signature of a famous saxophone player... he then goes back home. Perhaps I am reading too much into a movie that was possibly just supposed to be a good film with a few laughs, but what I saw was a man who could make his life great no matter what his surroundings were. I read a book full of great life quotes; one of which was, "The tragedy of life," said W.M. Lewis, "is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." Personally I think that is my problem, I keep waiting for a more convenient time to have a full life, like when I'm done school, when I have a career, a family... but I don't think a full life is about convenience, but about action. Live like Victor, simply and wonderfully!