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Analysis Of The Film ' The Visitor '

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The protagonists and social conflicts in the film The Visitor presented living experience to explore that are different to my personal history. The four actors in the film are all unique from one another, but they possess a universal understanding and awareness that are not different from the life that I know. Walter Vale is a single white male, a widowed and a father who is at the end of his professional career as an academic professor. Walter adult son lives in London and he pretends to be happy with his work, but the truth is he felt unsatisfied, this was expressed at the end of the film. You also saw in the beginning of the movie Walter also didn’t enjoy his piano lessons he took from an elderly woman. Walter found meaning in life the …show more content…

Walter is the gem through which intersectionality at the micro-level may be recognized. Walter is conscious of the injustices and critical perpetuated by his country’s unfair immigration policies which allows innocent people to be detained and deported. Walter was aware that as a white man the unintentional mistreatment that could be done through the lack of knowledge of Tarek, Zainab and Mouna’s experiences. Through Walter the viewer can see how political oppression affects innocent people like Tarek. Walter was willing to support and advocate for Tarek against the unjust and racist injustices of the immigration policies in America. This was remarkable when you consider the privilege of white men like Walter, their class, age and education and social status. As the film develops, I was moved by Walter taking lessons from Tarek, on learning to play the djembe and he was impress and successful in his public performances on the instrument. Walter’s piano teacher response to him firing her in the beginning of the film taught him that it is very difficult for people of his age with little experience to achieve success in learning how to play a new instrument. Walter had an encounter with a student who, submits a late paper and asks for it to be accepted, heartlessly Walter refused to accept. At that moment, Walter was witnessed by the viewer to be insensitive and cold. It’s not until the end of the film, the

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