Central Station

Central Station is a story talks about a mother-lost boy named Josue who tried to look for his fater, Jesus. Dora is the woman who has a stall in the central station, earning a living by writing letters for people. They are related by a letter Josue's mother Ana send to the father Jesus. Dora accompanied Jesus the whole way to his father's. Eventually Josue reached his brothers', with the leaving of Dora silently in the dawn.
It is said that Josue's journey to find his father is also Dora's journey to examine her own past and regain a sense of authentic self.
The image of father, neither Josue’s nor Dora’s, hasn’t shown though the whole movie. But it seemed that father meant happiness and a power of reliance. Dora lost her father and a kind of belief. Before she met Josue, what she had in her life was only those who paid to have letters and a friend, Ana, who didn’t approve of her. I think, when she accompanied Josue to look for his borther, she also got relived herself. As for Josue, he was different from other lovely boys in the movie. Although he was together with his mother, there was suspicion and disbelief in his eyes. May be these were caused by the society. After his mother’s death, he persisted in looking for his father. Although they all didn’t find their father at last, they found the hope and happiness father presented.
At the end of the movie, both Josue and Dora cried because they had to be apart, and this was life. In the beginning of the movie, floods of people passed though the central station, just like a large number of people passed though our life every day. We have to say goodbye to those people, for we had to continue our life. Like Dora, we shall examine our own past and regain a sense of authentic self.