Pat & I grabbed a bubble tea & walked down to the 4-Star theater on Clement St last weekend and saw The Visitor. It was such a rich adventure to watch! I highly recommend it. It reminded me to enrich my life in whatever ways I can seize, how moving images can inspire greatness (vs. the majority of awfulness on tv & some popular movies), and it is a nice non-stereotypical portrait of immigrant lives in the US. I'd almost discourage watching the trailer so you can go on the same surprising journey I did with no expectations.
M Belle, since it deals with immigration, it got me wondering how difficult it must have been for you & R Beau to deal with all that legal work, especially post 9/11?
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Cool, I want to see this too and it is showing here at the Robinson Film Center here. Have y'all heard of the RFC, it's an amazing, shiny new non-mainstream movie theater. We just saw Wang Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" there; which I highly recommend especially if you like his other movies which this one references a lot.
I'm not sure if our immigration story is atypical or if we only hear about the difficult ones because they're the ones worth talking about. We have several friends who have had a really hard time and we were bracing ourselves for a possible struggle, but it went completely smoothly. We did most of the immense amount of preparation work ourselves which required about 2 months of researching, planning and gathering information. Then we paid an immigration lawyer for an hour of his time to ask questions; he was able to correct some of our mistakes on forms and tell us about easier ways to do things. On the big interview day we came with five pounds of evidence of our relationship like air tickets, letters, shared bills and the like, all neatly xeroxed in the fashion the lawyer told us to do. We got a big stamp and smile and were told we passed. We were so incredibly relieved that all of the many hitches that could have happened didn't. I also think, and other's do not agree, that it has to do with the country he's from. Citizens of China and Russia much less the countries of the Middle East seem to have a much more difficult time especially in terms of the FBI check. Also the way in which we filed documents seemed to save a lot of time. It was at times a very frustrating experience as the gov't would give us vague or conflicting directions. That hour with the lawyer was golden. Overall, it took about six months.
wow, that's great. i'm sure your preparation def. played an important role. and it is so obvious the two of you are smitten:-)
oh, and the RFC sounds rad, go S'port (again)!
i've been meaning to see this, too! i think the ACLU was very involved in the making of the film, or the director is active in the ACLU, or something along those lines... and yes, go shreveport!
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