穿越国境

   Nowadays most of the Hollywood movies are presenting us a wonderful picture of the American society, which is full of freedom and opportunities. But Crossing Over help us understand the immigration problem of the real American in a completely new way.
It is a story constitutes of about six small stories and these stories are linked by one or two threads. It is a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, etc.
      Max Brogan, an INS agent stationed in Los Angeles, who decides to help an illegal textile worker (Alice Braga) by making sure that the woman's son is taken care of by his grandmother in Mexico when the woman is detained. After a while, the woman escaped from the prison and then tried to across the border to see her son. But finally she died in the desert alone with an illegal status. Meanwhile, Max's partner Hamid Baraheri, struggles to reconcile his job with the culture of his family and the reckless behavior of his younger sister. His brother killed her sister mistakenly. Max Brogan investigates this case and found the truth at last. And Cole Frankel, an adjudicator who determines the status of immigrants and their green cards has a sexual relationship with Alice Eve who is a beautiful Australian actress .This beautiful girl sacrifices her body for a green card and got deported at last. Ashley Judd plays Cole's wife, who defends immigrants in status cases. She deals the case that a girl with a Middle Eastern descent was deported because she wrote a paper asking rights for the killer in 9.11. In a parallel storyline, a young Korean youth, days before his family's naturalization ceremony, makes a decision that could have terrible consequences.
      In this movie, all the heroes come or stay in American to live up their own American dreams. Someone wants to be a musician and someone wants to be a movie star. They want to get into the American society totally, since we all know the American society is like a melting pot. Though some of them succeed, the others got deported. Immigration problem has been troubling the U.S government for so many years and it is still a big problem that cannot be solved immediately. We often think immigrates are rich or have a high IQ living comfortably. But the truth is like this. According to the survey carried out by the American population immigration center shows that now there are 12 million illegal immigrates in American and are still increasing. Many of them only attended the high school and do many heavy works in the U.S. Their rights can never be ensured and they get low pay living in a bad environment.
The young Mexican mother came to American illegally and worked hard in a small illegal factory in order to live. The illegal immigrates provide the American with much cheap work force, and also become the burden of American employment , medicine and social welfare system. They want to earn a living there, but the American government cannot deal with them. And the girl with a Middle Eastern descent got deported because of her wrong words shows us something more thought-provoking. The American is a multinational country, so the immigration policy there is always loose. But after the “9/11” terrorist attack, American government are worried about their safety and started to take serious actions.
Unlike the movie Far And Away showed in class telling us about the success of immigrates, this movie seems to reveal the real immigration to us cruelly. It is full of tears and also full of love from human beings. The INS agent cares about the young mother from Mexico. Maybe it shows that the government knows the pain of all the immigrants and is willing to take action to solve this .But now this problem is too complicated to solve. So we should look at the American dream in a sensible way. Don’t think immigration and American dream are perfect things. Everything is not perfect. The broken American dream is an education to us.
        

  电影讲述的不仅仅是越境问题，更多是想表述不同种族国籍的人在美国生存所遇到的问题和冲突，人性的各种方面都表露无疑，放大视角世界各地人们生存的周围环境也会出现类似的事情，由于以前生活过的环境与现在环境的不同使得人们相互之间产生矛盾。
  我非常喜爱和推荐这类题材的电影，做个类比的话，以前布拉德皮特演的《巴别塔》也是这种题材的电影，喜欢《巴别塔》的人同样也可以看一下这部电影。

      电影《穿越国境》，当时看介绍就知道是好看，没想到比我猜测的更好看。美国电影有个特点，即便他们拍获奖或有深层意义的电影都能拍的很吸引人，一般国家拍这类电影通常都会比较乏味。
      电影的导演其实还是站在人性关爱的角度来看待非法移民和努力获得绿卡一族的奋斗、无奈和艰辛的问题。下面有部分剧透。
      中东女生没能理解美国的言论自由并非360度的自由，例如你有骂ZF的自由，但是你没有种族歧视的自由，如果你有理解同情恐怖分子的言行则会带来更大的问题。因为他们担心你的倾向性会导致你以后也变成一个恐怖分子。女生的言论导致把自己的家庭分到了两个国家，在此表达下自己的观点，我同样赞成不管打着怎样的美名都不能成为袭击老百姓的理由。大家在谴责美国霸道的时候请思考一下我们的某个省，ZF对他们够好了吧，高考加分可以生两个宝宝等，照样暖不住他们的心。不过最后女生的爸爸偷偷送她们时，我还得感动的哭了。
      韩国的半路移民少年跟混混瞎混，非ABC的孩子突然来到美国念书，刚开始很难融入，会出现很多问题。在最后时刻那个警察刻意放了他一马，反而让他从此改邪归正了。但是并不是每个人犯了刑事之罪还有清白归正的机会，所以还是好好学习天天向上才是正道。可能因为美国跟韩国的关系更好，不管是《迷失》还是《超感警探》，都有戏份不轻的角色给韩国人。
      在美的华人常说犹太人之间习惯于互相帮助，这里的情节或许可以归为团结的一个角度吧……
      美国是个让很多人来了就不想走的地方，在没有获得绿卡之前，每个人都得担忧自己哪天到期被迫离开或被遣送，始终没有安全感，而且找工作、薪水、医疗等等，有没有绿卡那差别可是一个巨大的悬殊，于是各种故事便登场了。宣誓的那段，我真心相信很多人真的会流泪，因为这个历程只有经历过的人才能知晓是怎样的艰辛……
    最后跑题一下，越来越多的中国孕妇到美国生宝宝，当各种人还在为绿卡使劲奋斗时，那个小宝宝以后回到美国就已经拥有了更安全的身份。不过作为母亲，因为生子的经历会导致以后再去美国很容易被拒签。

      国境线只不过是一个存在人民心中的抽象而已，问题往往比它看上去严肃且严重。一条简简单单的线，穿插着太多苦难艰辛与悲哀无奈。在线的最底层，是一帮因为各种奇怪的理由狂热想移居美利坚的非美国人，而在中端的，是移民海关执法局、移民署、最高人民法院等国家暴力机关，他们当然都是一批对外地人极端冷血的家伙，而在最高层迎风飘扬的，是自由，那美国一直标榜的自由——当然这自由不包括为被美国所军事打击的国家发哪怕一句言的穆斯林。
    对，我当然想起《海上钢琴师》中，一大批怀揣美国梦的外国移民者远远指着自由女神像，兴奋着大声呼喊：“America！”而他们到底有无做好准备，做好被毫无情面可讲遣返的准备？然而问题并非如此简单，为了弄到一张合法绿卡，澳大利亚女孩不惜出卖自己的肉体；墨西哥女孩被遣返后仍企图再次偷渡，最终死于国境线上；孟加拉少女的动人容颜换不回任何同情，最终与母亲踏上永远离开美国的飞机，在那一刻，她的眼里射出坚毅、刚强的光，我甚至坚持认为，她将为自己制作人肉炸弹，回到美国炸毁自由女神像。另一方面，韩国男孩在成功拿到绿卡前一晚却参与一桩抢劫，不懂祈祷的假犹太人凭借动人的嗓音取得在美国的合法居住权，而妄想脱离家族的Hot女因其观念与家族观大相径庭惨遭自己亲哥哥射杀。
    种族、文化、阶层在这里如盐与水般交融，无奈、压迫、折磨同样在此等境地汇合，这个自由的国家，充斥了太多限制自己的绳索，政府部门用粗大有力的臂膀握紧了绳索，大声吼叫，来，谁敢来，老子吊死你。一堆手无缚鸡之力的外国人，别无他法，除了无力发出几声没人在乎的嘶喊。