Central Station

Central Station, a Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles, tells the story of the journey that two strangers take. The film begins with Dora, whose job is to write letters for people who cannot and send them out. However, she just takes the customers money and never send the letters out. One day a boy name Josue and his mother come to her asking Dora to write a letter to Josue's father. Josue has never met his father and his mother hopes to reunite the family. Things unfortunately turn out terribly as Josue's mother is run over by a car and killed.

Dora decides to take the boy, so that she could sell him and make some money. However she changes her mind after finding out that she has put the boy in danger. Dora, feeling bad, decides to help Josue look for his father but all does not go well. On the way they meet some bad people and find themselves in bad situations and they find out that the father has changed his address many times. However, a friendship grows between Dora and Josue as they face the hurdles of finding Josue's father. Eventually, the two find the brothers of Josue but not his father. Dora decides to leave Josue with his brothers, when she sees how caring they are.

One of the themes of this movie is friendship. Friendship plays a key role in the film. At the beginning Dora does not really have any friends and is a very bitter women. When she meets Josue she is very hesitant to take care of him and just wants to find his father and dump him there. But as the film progresses a strong bond forms between the two and Dora starts loving the boy and the boy starts loving the boy. The friendship between Dora and Josue really changes Dora in a very positive way. The boy in a way shows Dora how to live again and brings something to her life that has been absent from her for so long, HAPPINESS.

This film was an excellent story of how the most unexpected people can have the biggest impact on you life. At the beginning of the film you could never think that a little boy would have such an impact on her life, but it happens. I thought it was a beautifully told story that conveyed a lot of emotion. The ending where you see Dora leaving on the bus and Josue running after her was a very powerful scene and perfectly done. A fantastic film that I would recommend to anybody who loves film.