Critical Reflection on the Reading and the Film

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Critical Reflection on the Reading and the Film
The central arguments in James Gray’s 2013’s The Immigrant entail an exploration of the Christian tradition values in threefold – love, faith, and hope. The reading highlights the vital role that faith, love, and hope play as the movie director leads his characters to instances where they find a certain extend of transcendence over the constraints they are currently struggling with. Accordingly, these themes relate to immigrants’ experiences of love, faith, and hope, as depicted by the film characters. Most immigrants move to another country searching for greener pastures, and such a process requires hope, perseverance, and love. For example, Marion Cotillard (Ewa Cybulska) is a Polish Immigrant who migrated to America with her sibling to seek better life only to discover that a wide range of setbacks characterizes the opportunity land. Furthermore, Ewa’s sibling is quarantined for tuberculosis. There also emerged rumors that Ewa was a woman of questionable character and thus the need to depot her to Poland. Ewa demonstrated hope since a Jewish man ultimately assisted and took her in (Adair 3). This reflects the theme of love for one another in the Jewish man’s character. In this vein, the film’s fundamental arguments relate to the need for Ewa and her sister to persevere and have faith and hope in the new land (Gray).
The critical social issue addressed in the film entails spirituality and its effect on society’s behavioral inclinations. The film also shows the problem of immigration during this particular era. First, The Immigrant portrays how faith informs social ties, familial commitments, as well as a life-centered response to injustice ...