看不见影子的少年

音乐很不错。

欲望的代价。

最终亲情还是让位于未来更多的机会，不是吗？

早点明白这个道理也挺好。

她的弟弟妹妹痛哭，但很快这种痛苦就会被更好的生活环境及其更多机遇带来的兴奋代替。

这个女孩永远的被抛弃了。

当然，她也是自找，不过年轻人嘛，谁还没点挑战权威、挑战大众的精神？

看到为梦想执着努力的人们，看着为生活拼尽全力的人们，看为自由声嘶力竭的人们，为美好生活、为明天尽力的人们，我们不能责怪，也不该质疑美国移民法规的冷酷无情，因为这是为了千千万万历尽千辛留在这片自由土地上的人的自由和安危。

我也想过为什么这些人不留在自己的国家好好地生活，偏要来这里受尽屈辱，因为他们的国家战火蔓延无法生存，因为他们的国家贫瘠荒凉不能给自己的儿女更好的明天，因为这里有他们的梦想和想要的生活，所以，一批又一批非法移民，前仆后继的铤而走险，只为了平静的生活，为了子女美好的未来，为了更多的自由。

试想如果美国移民局放宽移民政策，那么不久的将来大洋彼岸的自由之土会变得何等的混乱和不堪。

所以，虽然法不容情，但是毕竟有它的道理，凡事有利必有弊，而人所能控制的只能是做利大于弊之事，之于个人，我们当然希望多些max这样的人。

《穿越国境》就像一把利剑，能够穿透人的灵魂。

看后很久心情都无法平静，整片从头到尾都很压抑，如一块巨石压在胸口，种族问题、移民问题、人性的宽大与狭隘，影片多线头的阐述着这些问题，一张绿卡牵动多少人的心。

同样是绿卡问题，影片通过多个视角，多种事件，表现出了人与人在同样问题前的不同态度。

影片让我想起另一部影片《撞车》。

本片又像是《撞车》的一个分支，由移民一条线引出所有的问题。

影片多处情节几乎让我落泪，受害者对待所有不公，都只有忍气吞声的态度，由于一篇作文被驱逐出境，为了绿卡成为审批员的发泄对象，为了孩子死在美国边境的母亲，种种表明只要你身在美国，你还没有拿到绿卡，那么人家的地盘，人家做主。

老演员哈里森.福特在这部直击美国移民问题与种族问题的影片中，为美国人不断的挽回颜面，身处尴尬的角色，却将人性的美好放射到最大化。

我极力推荐大家2009年一定要看《穿越国境》。

看了豆瓣上所有的评论,普遍评价不高,很正常,没有移民过的人其实很难体会,也无法体会导演的角度,我觉得角度其实只有一个,移民道路上的愁与酸,并不全是非法移民的痛苦与悲惨,更多的是愁与酸.其中相当部分的人是有绿卡的,或有相当大机会取得绿卡的(还有同是发达国家的澳大利亚人),这比单纯讲非法移民要深得多.另外也不会觉得拖拓和缓慢,如果那恰好是你的一段人生.想一下:如果你每周要提心吊胆地工作60小时,才能赚到白人10小时的工资;如果你要靠那样打工来养活自己,交够学费,再寄钱回家还债;如果你要花上比白人学生多两倍的时间读书才能跟上进度;如果你是每晚和7个人睡在同一间10平方米的房子里,早上还要早起抢厕所抢龙头;如果你曾整整一周只吃土豆;如果你曾因为不会讲广东话,被下贱的香港越南餐馆老板随意斥骂侮辱;如果有一天你发现你一个月的伙食费,还不够买一包大袋的狗粮;所有的这些只不过因为你没有公民纸,没有绿卡.然后一天,你有了绿卡,甚至有了公民纸,当它被裱入相框挂在墙上的那一时起:你在人权上和所有人平等了, 再也不用打黑工拿少得可怜的工资了;然后你开始在正规公司,或大企业努力工作,在你的专业领域发挥你的才智,进而获得提升;然后你开始积攒你赚到的每一分钱,你要买大房子,买高档车,要象其他人一样建立家庭;然后你就会有最漂亮的房子,最贵的车,你会看到白人邻居羡慕的眼神.然后你会想要有真正属于自己的事业,让人尊敬的那种,你要证明我富裕不单是我努力勤奋,不单是我比你们省吃俭用会理财,是我根本上是比你们更优秀的人,一直都是.然后,忽然发现再就没有然后了.这是一条什么样的路? 从"不是人"(黑民)到"法律意义"上的"人",到白人社会认可的"人",再到白人社会尊敬的"人上人".然后,忽然发现再就没有然后了.你可能得到了主流社会的尊重,是真正由衷的尊重.但可能只有一刹那,一分钟,别人就不会在乎了,因为毕竟和他们的生活没有关系.可笑,如此一生的奋斗,很可能,在你的心底,只是为了换别人由衷的尊重,即便那只得一分钟.那之后呢,是忽然失去方向,而落寞的心,和挥之不去的乡愁.影片中各种肤色的移民:因为非法打工而被移民局追捕,亡命奔逃;因为捍卫祖国发表的言论,被白人威胁排挤;面对偷窃,诈骗不劳而获时的诱惑;面对抢劫勒索,暴力犯罪时的恐惧;为了绿卡,制造虚假,进行欺骗时的虚弱;为了绿卡,出卖自己的不堪;身为父母,却无法沟通的"第二代",和半"人"半"鬼"的第一代(在广东语中,"人"指中国人,"鬼"指老外).还有那些最终也没走到彼岸的偷渡者.我对这一切感同身受,因为这也确是我和我周围的人走过的路,这一条条的路,每一条都充满着机遇,每一条都充满着诱惑,每一条都布满了陷阱,不断有各式各样的人,在不同的路上倒下,也不断有各式各样的人从这些条路上走了出去,在路上你都能看到.你也不知道自己最终能否走出去,或是会半途倒下,只是不能停,以前出国的人是只有倒下,没有回头的,没到回头的时候,走出去,才能回头,走出去后,可能得到幸福,可能变得富裕,也可能发现还是一无所有,更可能比路上还要糟糕.当然我觉得最多的是"再就没有然后"."居高临下的俯瞰","脸谱化的移民们","美国移民政策的自省",这些视角你是不会去想的,如果那恰好是你的一段人生.哈米德在超市里对小棒子说的那段话,重重地打中了我的胸口:"你站在那儿,看着从五湖四海来的人们,有的国家你都叫不出名字,你都不知道还有那样的地方存在,可大家都很高兴,大家都可以留在这儿了,因为这是最终的选择,如果你也有那种体会的确话,如果你真的珍惜那一时刻的话,你不会在这儿惹上这个麻烦,那是这段旅程的终点,是苦尽甘来的满足,当你明天穿戴整齐站在那里的时候,我要你看看四周,好好看看他们的脸,真正理解你在那一刻将许下一个什么样的承诺"扮演哈米德的演员,我感受到了他真正的感情,或许我愿意相信那是他本人的感情,没有参加过入籍仪式的人是说不了这段话的.这不是说美国有多了不起,削尖脑袋要往里钻的人有多贱,只是最朴素的话,全是洋溢幸福的话,道出了移民一路走来的愁和酸.哈里森.福特演技再好也说不了.这只能从一个移民的口中说出.能走到那个仪式上的人,都会想到以前的,心情不会是春风得意,不会是意气风发,那是一点点乡愁,一点点哀伤,一点点凄苦,都是淡淡的.过去的一切在那时都会模糊,不再是锥心的痛苦,只是一点点愁,不再是刻骨的怨恨,只是一点点哀,还有那一点点的凄,是会伴随余生的.仪式上会领到三件东西,国旗,公民纸,还有一棵树,小树苗,伴你一同落地生根.你到达这个国家的时候,只是CROSS "ABOARD",落地生根的那一刻,才是CROSS "OVER",你的前方还有人生等待,这段旅程确是结束了,这时你能回头看,回首时,会有淡淡的愁从心底泛起,会有淡淡的酸涌上鼻头,因为看见,来路迢迢.

美国号称自己包容、自由、人道，bullshit，他们需要的是对他们有用的人，对他们国家有用的人，对他们没用的人毫不犹豫地赶走。

既要做婊子，又要立牌坊，要么你就别宣称那些假大空的口号，要么你就像避难所一样来者不拒，遮遮掩掩，说一套做一套。

美国人，或者说西方人，不吃狗肉，因为狗是人类的朋友。

尼玛狗比牛聪明，狗会讨好人尼玛狗就是人类的朋友，牛特么招你惹你了，因为牛的营养价值高就尼玛吃牛肉。

和特么的移民政策一个操性。

【This article is wrote to be handed as final paper for my elective course: American Immigration Culture. If you are reading for the same purpose, I strongly suggest you DO NOT copy crz all the following words are wrote by myself.】 Like many other films focus on globalization and immigration, Crossing Over is also a multi-character canvas about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles.As an officer in the Bureau of Immigration, Max Brogan takes care of the boy of a deported Mexico immigrant Mireya Sanchez and try to track her, ended up finding her dead body in the desert between borders.In the same time, Max's colleague Hamid Baraheri, who's an Iranian American, was informed that his little sister was shoot dead. As Max getting more familiar with Hamid's family and getting closer to the truth, Hamid got involved into a robbery in Korean Town and changed a Korean boy's life forever,who will take oath to a US citizen right next day. Max eventually figured that it was Hamid's brother that killed their sister in the name of their father's will, and his brother was arrested when their father was taking oath and become a US citizen. Gavin as a struggling England musician pretends to be religious Jew to get a job in Jewish School and luckily get a green card. However, his girlfriend Claire who tries to get a green card with an immigration officer by having unlimited sex within two months, was deported. Taslima Jahangir, a 15-year-old girl from Bangladesh, presents a paper at school promoting that people should try to understand the 9/11 hijackers. The bureau arrested her and her family was forced to divided, Taslima and her mother was deported and her father and bros remain in US. As clear as we can see from this movie itself, the immigration policy in US has strictly restricted and narrowed after 9/11, still people around the world seek for any means, legally and illegally, to get a status and stay in the states. America is the only country that was born to be multinational and multiracial. But it was never as friendly as Uncle Sam seems to be. Nor as hospitable as the Statue of Liberty appears to show. Not to mention how the "separate but equal" policy twisted the constitutional law in history, just take a deeper look in the past decade. The US government and US people have never been so terrified until 9/11. The domestic focus began to move from east Asia to Muslim and Islam world. What a typical western mind will take it for granted that only public election, take ruling turns and the already established western political roles can make a country prosperous and modernized. What they don't know is, however, just as the teenager girl in the movie try to formulate, how people in the other side of the world think and feel. This movie tries to show the audience how far people will go and how much they'd like to pay for a status in the US, a green card or an Immigration certification. The young Mexico woman died for it. The young Korean boy had a bloody lesson. The Iranian family all became US citizens but deep inside they are still think in a conservative way and murdered one of their own. The England boy and Austrian girl, despite the fact they are all Caucasian, ended up differently by chance. And the Bangladesh girl was deported from the country she had grown up since three years old, only for a presentation she thought she had the right to free speech. When we study immigration culture and more specifically speaking, American immigration culture, there is always a question haunting around my mind. Why do people prefer to sacrifice or risk everything to stay in States? It is no longer the old time that we hold the belief that there is gold everywhere in US. People nowadays hold different dreams and different lives to the US are actually doing the same as the in Mayflower. US cannot guarantee you a successful future, but it provides you more opportunities. Along with that, you also need to suffer the consequences. Different backgrounds are making different little communities. It's hard to say how many first generations can really blend into the mainstream. Take Hispanics for example, there're still prejudices that most illegal migrations are Hispanic, while in fact, the number people speaking Spanish in US is bigger than all they other language speakers exclude English. Rome was not built in a day, and US can never be a perfect country as it claims to be. But we cannot ignore the fact that it inspired people who're struggling, who still have dream, who must have a life to lead to. The distinction of nationality and border are the outcome of industrial revolution, and all the bittersweet an immigration tastes can never be fully empathized. That's why this movie cannot be really popular. That's also the reason why the study of immigration culture is so attractive.

这是什么样的机缘让我在这之际看到这电影，后天即将启程去陌生的城市，虽然之前去过，不过这次是去寻找我的一席之地。

无论出于什么目的来到一座陌生的城市，都是想尽办法融入其中，那就是找到所谓的归属感吧。

那其中的辛酸只有漂泊的人才知道。

可是人不就是这样嘛。

能轻易得到总是很不屑抑或是迟疑是否.....宝贵的总是不那么轻易能得到的。

美国梦，一代一代。

里面充满了激情、汗水、甜蜜，当然也充满了龌龊、眼泪和苦难。

为了留在那个“最接近上帝”的世界，不惜一次又一次地冲过地雷满布的边境，就是为了留下来，开始他们梦的第一步。

不想去评论美国梦，已经有太多的嘲讽和轻蔑，人追寻自己的梦没有任何对错。

而一个人美国人，当他过着认为最简单的生活，和家人在一起，受到法律的保护，可以随意停留在自己土地上，如此简单，却不知很多人对它的渴求可以放下尊严，可以铤而走险。

美国人眼里看得太多，但大部分并不关心，他们不知道自己是在破碎甚至是蹂躏别人的梦想。

但是导演或者他所代表的那类美国人尝试换个角度去观察别人的梦想，看到了别人辛酸，看到了自己的光环，他们说：美国欢迎每一个人新的公民。

美国是否还真像他们所说的那样，美国梦是否还真值得世人的追寻？

　　美国梦 确实对于很多人来讲都是一个非常大的馅饼。

尽管移民局得全力非常的大，但是事实上移民手续在很大的程度上还是有漏洞可以钻空子的。

而美国是个讲求own和良心的国家。

　　我在看这部电影的时候就在想，如果这种事情放在中国，可能就不会是这样得有社会现实了，因为在中国没有关系，很多时候确实寸步难行。

　　尽管我不喜欢这样的题材，但是我觉得从意义上来讲，我是被教育的那一个

Unlike most hollywood movies are talking about American dreams and how a American dream comes true,a film like cross the nation is more like a painting that illustrates how a dream comes broken.This film is made up of 5 independent stories that are linked to each other dependentlyThe main idea this movie is trying to get across is like nothing I saw before. What is brought into great focus is not the breathtaking special effect or the intense action scenes like Micael Bay's corny Transformers,but the humanity that only great movies can bring us.Let's pay attention to the Iraq girl's story.she made a speech about 911 accident to demonstrate only in that way can their voice be heard. As you can imagine, this presentation sparkled widespread public outrage in her class and what's worse was Federal Agents gave an order that her parents and she have to move back to where they came from.So are Iraq people living cowards or dead Heros for you? Considering of her situation, We may feel sorry about the girl. Yes but what if there is a little girl talking about free Tibet in our class?can we still remain rational about that?Probably not.In the end,Claire went back Australia. Her ex-boyfriend got his greencard. The Korean guy made his graduation... Everything looks fine but there are still tens of thousand people struggling for their lives. Some made it. Some cried over it.How much do we have to pay for our dreams? The answers always differ from people to people in America.In a nutshell, Crossing line brings you a real America.