Terminal: Movie Diorama(s)

A Story by Abishai100

A 'pseudo-refugee' trapped in Logan (Airport!) must discover 'wrought' magic in the condition(s) of intercontinental/modern...distress.

A very enriching cinema-exposition of the traffic-IQ 'd' movie of recent time, The Terminal (Tom Hanks). Hope you like (and Happy Father's Day!),

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Inside Logan (Airport!), an eccentric politics-writer named Amlan Satan arrived with his intention to see the great New England city of Boston (Massachusetts) before departing for Calgary (Canada) where he hoped to settle as a new citizen of the West and meet his intended Internet mail-order-bride Ana.

SATAN (Amlan): In Algeria, my home-country, was pseudonym 'legal' version of Salman Rushdie but now seek new Canada life.

Fortunately, for Amlan Satan, he's brought his lovely pocket-abridged version of Treasure Island, which he's now happily reading in the Terminal of Aer Lingus where he's waiting for an airport manager to 'assist' him with his special political-diplomatic status issue/problem regarding having no 'home-return' country to secure by papers/forms.

SATAN (Amlan): The recent upsurge in Algerian tremor(s) has made any return-visit somewhat of fears, so I stay in Terminal.

Now, Logan is a nice airport (New England). It's boasting nice walkways and food-courts and restrooms, and vending-machines, and calling-card operated payphones and good attendance-staff and generally good securities. Amlan's wandering around, using his special 'diplomacy' food-vouchers and procuring hot-dogs and soup with quarters obtained from the 'pedestrian labor service' of returning luggage carts to the cart-chain and generally 'settling-in' to the Logan 'life' of patience/impatience. He's also got some handy-dandy Klonopin psychiatry-pills to keep him calm as he wanders.

SATAN (Amlan): I feel like Ivan Denisovich (ha!), and I wander around Logan waiting for airport-manager/rep assistance!

He notices a beautiful woman walking inside the Logan entrance and sitting in the lounge/shop(s) area and wonders if she's single but then notices her weeping and saying on the phone to her girlfriend, "My dark pilot boyfriend is married and used me as a mistress only!" and wonders if he might console her...Amlan may be falling in love with this Logan-woman.

Finally, the airport-manager (Stanley) sees Amlan Satan with his peculiar diplomacy-IQ issue in Logan. He arrived in Logan to see Boston and then fly to Canada to settle into Calgary and meet his mail-order-bride (Ana). However, Algeria, his home-country is in flux politically suddenly because of an 'outbreak' (news-coverage in airports!), leaving Amlan as a 'man without origin(s)' which concerns the stern but humorous Stanley of Logan. Stanley explains Satan must wait 'patiently' inside his Aer Lingus terminal area of Logan while the United States diplomats 'arrange' the right status-passage for him to eventually get to Calgary safely to meet/greet his awaiting mail-order-bride Ana.

AMLAN SATAN: I must wait in Terminal while United States gov't chooses what to do with Algeria-American relations for travel?

STANLEY: That's correct, Amlan; we've simply no choice but to allow you patience-time with food-vouchers; live like refugee.

SATAN (Amlan): I've wonderful-beautiful photo of my Calgary mail-order-bride waiting for me (Ana); don't know how I'll greet!

Finally, while wandering around Logan, getting sausages and soup with his newfound temp-'job' as luggage-cart delivery-boy for quarter-token returns and washing up in the Logan (Airport!) restrooms (shaving too!) and even taking a part-time position as a kitchen maintenance-man alongside a janitor from India he meets inside the Boston airport (Ramesh Patel), he once again notices the beautiful Logan-woman who'd been weeping on the phone with her girlfriend about her cheating boyfriend-pilot (Victor). He decides to buy her coffee-danish.

RAMESH PATEL: I too seek love in airport, Amlan Satan; I've been 'tracking' an airport security female officer named Pamela.

WOMAN: So, you're technically some kind of Algerian-displaced Logan 'refugee' awaiting diplomatic resolution for passage?
AMLAN: That's absolutely true, and I've got special sentiment-gift for you, fine lady of Airport!

WOMAN: Call me Sandy (my name!).

AMLAN: You're from California.

WOMAN: How'd you guess?
AMLAN: Hippie-look in you...here's the gift I have for you (Sandy!) --- rare/antique Algerian coin from pre-Revolution.

WOMAN: Wow...I don't know what to say (really!), Amlan Satan.

AMLAN: Say...if I get out of airport (somehow/someday), you'll have lunch/date with me at Wingate (Wyndham).

WOMAN (Sandy): Aren't you leaving for Calgary?
AMLAN: Maybe/maybe-no; maybe this Algerian antique-coin present (for you!) is start of something in my 'new' life.

SANDY: Hmm...maybe.

STANLEY: You have one choice --- walk out of here and get to your hotel and call Canadian embassy and inform them of Ana.

AMLAN: What about Sandy (new girlfriend)?

STANLEY: I don't give a hoot about Sandy (or Ana!), Mr. Satan --- just get off my hands, lest I make noise about you and Patel.

AMLAN: Ramesh Patel (my janitor-buddy who's in love with security officer in Airport --- Pamela)?

STANLEY: Mr. Satan --- either you walk-out and take cab with 'Sandy' to Wingate en-route to wherever or return to Algeria!

AMLAN: Algeria is home...only troubled; I leave with Sandy now.

STANLEY: Great!

SANDY: What a 'fantastic' Cranberries concert, Satan.

AMLAN: This is wonderful new life with you, sweetheart.

SANDY: What's Calgary got for us from here, Amlan?

AMLAN: New life...music/arts/peace.

Amlan/Sandy got married (in Calgary) and enjoyed a summer drive-in rescreening of the 'iconic' migration-themed scifi-horror masterpiece Alien: Covenant, perhaps (arguably!) a 'translation' in metaphysics of the 'complexity' in consciousness of the 'alien-consciousness' regarding fixed-placement(s) for wandering 'beings' of great universal intent...or worries.