yuno est This is the movie which can feel power to have of the music. Two people of Walter and Tarek totally different in both the race and the viewpoint become a friend through music. And Walter who a wife dies, and shut a heart grows up interiorly.His growth is the highlight of this movie. Him who heard only classical music, he comes to be interested in a musical instrument called jembe and African music by Tarek and cohabitation with Zainab. Music has the tendency by a district and a country, but the music is originally free. The music disturbs an obstacle of a race and the age and can be absorbed. It appears in the scene that Tarek teaches Walter how to play the jembe and plays for the first time. His figure to play while being embarrassed is totally like the boy.However, this work is not the movie which merely conveys power of the music. It is a claim that music is limited in the modern society. It is the movie which a pain is left in a heart after having finished looking.

argo0403 Walter, an old professor,  goes to NY where he used to live for attending the presentation. However, a couple lives in his apartment. The Visitor is a human drama that is slow-pacing but gradually delivers emotion.My mother recommended this to me and I  egan to watch but at first, I don't feel sympathy for Walter because he looks solemn and spiritless.  However, as this movie goes, he becomes attractive.  Tarek, one half of the couple plays an African dram and Walter starts playing it. I'm very impressive with this.  Through meeting him, Walter finds a hobby and changes.I've learned three things from The Visitor.  First one is that running across someone changes our life. In this movie, it's Walter and the couple.Second is about issues of immigrants.  Because of trifling thing, Tarek gets arrested and forced to exile. I think after 9.11, U.S. government becomes restrict for immigrants. I'm sad about this problem.  I hope there will be a country every ethnic lives free.Last is Richard Jenkins. This is the biggest fruition. Honestly speaking, I don't like him so much before watching this. Perhaps its because of the characters that he've played. I didn't feel any sympathy or attraction with him at that time. However, this time, I became a big fan of him! He seems ordinary but actually, he isn't. Now, I find it his special ability.In spite of these good points, there're some disappointing things. The relationship between Walter and Tarek's mother is unnecessary. And, it's a little bit slow-pacing. If I were sleepy, I would sleep during watching this.But as a human drama, it's well-made and   enough to be satisfied.  Especially, I do like the scene that Walter plays the dram. Though it's amusing somewhat, it also brings his passion to audience. The last scene is really moving.

Alex Heaton (azanti0029) I have followed the career of Richard Jenkins since I saw him play a grieving father to Jodie Foster in the little seen American baseball / rites of passage film 'Stealing Home'. He is an actor who commands some presence and lends a certain level of earnest emotion in any role he inhabits.He here plays Walter, a widowed college lecturer who has settled into his a mundane routine as his twilight years beckon. He is writing a book he will never finish and fails to connect sympathetically with any of students but has his comfortable order interrupted when he is asked to present a paper he barely co-authored in New York, giving him cause to visit his small apartment he owns. On arriving he finds it occupied by two illegal immigrants, Tarek and Zaniab (Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira) They leave willingly, but Walter takes sympathy on them and asks them to stay. She makes Jewellery at a stall in New York and he gets by using his African drum in local gigs. It's a meagre existence, but their humbleness endears them to Walter who does his best to help them when their lives are shattered by Tarek being faced with deportation. His mother, Mouna arrives to offer her support, with a well measured performance by Hiam Abbas. As the situation for Tarek becomes increasingly hopeless, Walter and Mouna form a tender friendship and romance beckons but so does reality.'The Visitor' is a simple film that beautifully observes the tensions and difficulties among the immigrant population of America in the post 9/11 world. Not all actors can write a great script, but clearly McCarthy can and if the performances are anything to go by he is clearly an actors director to. Everyone here is on great form, but the four leads are all exceptional, Gurira especially is a bottle of corked emotion clearly seen on screen in her visceral and brooding role, but its Jenkins here that shows all too clearly why he should have been trusted with a leading role a long time ago. Let's hope we see more of him for the remainder of his career. This is a beautifully observed film about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances who meet by chance. McCathy may well be America's own Mike Leigh. Fans of his and Ken Loach will find much to enjoy here.

tieman64 Sensitive or condescending, depending on your point of view, Thomas McCarthy's "The Visitor" stars Richard Jenkins as a grumpy, white, elderly American who cuts himself off from other human beings and begins to fester in his own morbid isolation.Underlit, obvious and poorly shot, the film then watches as Jenkins connects with a series of ethnic minorities, all of whom are denied the privileges afforded to white power, and all of whom face unfair persecution in the wake of both 9/11 and George Bush's subsequent roll out of liberty-squashing, executive measures. Much of the film watches as Jenkins tentatively dips his toes in foreign cultures, learns to appreciate the simple joys of other human beings and learns to love Islamic immigrants.Jenkins' forced isolation, a kind of self persecution which he applies to himself due to the passing of his wife, is then mirrored to the "actual" isolation/persecution suffered by ethnic minorities at the hands of white power.While the film does well to humanize Palestinians, Syrians and Senegalese, there's something patronizing about framing this tale as a white man's journey. And for all its heavy handed symbolism, it's a simple line of dialogue in the film which touches us the most: "Don't forget about me in here," a Palestinian-Syrian man pleads, as he's locked away in a windowless detention centre. Though he spends his life writing about global conflict, Jenkins, a university professor, has never before come face to face with something so shocking: a vast power with the ability to render anyone invisible.6/10 – Worth one viewing.