(6) : Crossing Over (2009)

(6) Crossing Over (2009)

My friend suggested this movie long ago. He was a big fan of Harrison Ford. But I decided to watch this with different purpose, Jim Sturgess also starred in this movie.

To mention shortly, it is some kind of omnibus that shows different nationalities(South Americans, Middle East, South Korea etc.) immigrants struggling to make their American Dream come true in the United States. Some of them face difficulty till their naturalization.

Harrison Ford, who acted as Max Brogan deals the illegal workers working without work permit in the United States. He attacked one of the factory and caught one young female worker and he found that she has her son. Even he dealt many illegal workers, somehow he felt sympathy for her and decides to take responsibility and takes her son to his grandparents house, in Mexico.

Second person was about Australian female actress living in the U.S.

There was a person who works in the custom department. He is greedy and he abuses his power as a person works in the custom. He meets one Australian woman who desperately wants the green card. He uses his power and makes her as his paramour.

And Islam family also appears in this movie. An Islam girl, she is having a hard time getting along with the classmates in school because of the Al-Qaeda and the 911 terror incident. While she was presenting her assignment, she announced that people should also hear the terrorists voices, reason why they terror. From here, she becomes the hot potato among people in her school and her teacher and principal reported her to the police and she became arrested. 

Lastly, Korean family appears. It was interesting to see how Korean family lives. It showed the general Korean family living in United States. Parents were working in the laundry shop. They live day to day life but they were happy that they live in United States and they were hoping for the day to become the U.S citizen. But their son joint in criminal activity, he broke into the supermarket with his friends. one detective was in the situation but listens to him that he is about to become the U.S citizen, he helps him to escape.

And finally becomes the U.S citizen.

Basically, it is about mixed raced and immigrants of different nationalities in the melting pot to get the green card. It showed various ways of people are trying to become the citizen of the U.S. These days, people working illegally still exist and they are deported back to their country, just like the Australian woman in this movie.

As I have lived abroad before, I also have seen many people setting up the illegal business to get the permanent residence of the country that they were staying. Somehow, I understand them but I think it seemed really dangerous because once you get caught, you are not able to visit the country for certain period of time.

And this movie reminded me of the news article saying that the record shows the number of "Maternity trips" to U.S has recorded 5,000 a year. This is very popular among Koreans to go to U.S to give birth to their child. I have friends who were born in United States but not in this way. Going to United States just to give their chile a birth seems negative.

By watching this movie, the scene that people living hard made me resolve myself to do my best at my current position.