Pledging allegiance to a new flag in 'Citizen USA'
When immigrants say, "I love America" and "God bless America" in accents from other countries, those words take on the ring of poetry.To watch people who desperately want to become Americans is to be reminded of some of the country's basic ideals. If you need a break from televised fireworks, watch HBO's "Citizen U.S.A.: A 50-State Road Trip," airing, most fittingly, on Monday, July 4.
Alexandra Pelosi's film is an unapologetic valentine to the United States.
"I genuinely believe the U.S. government could not pay anyone to make a nicer documentary," Pelosi says. "Every documentary ever made is about something wrong with America."
This, indeed, is about what is right with America, why millions flock here, to be free in every possible way.
The one-hour film opens with Pelosi's very personal reason that inspired the film. Her husband, Michiel Vos, a Dutch TV correspondent, who co-produced this documentary, had come here legally, married Pelosi, and once they had sons, decided to become naturalized.
"I have to become a citizen because I can't be a foreigner in my own family," he says.
Vos is shown reciting the pledge with President Barack Obama. Pelosi, a daughter of former House Speaker and current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, took her husband to the event so he could meet the president.
"After my husband went through this process, he felt like something really changed in him, and that he was no longer a foreigner," Pelosi narrates in the film.
Over lunch in a Chelsea restaurant, Pelosi explains how she spent a year on the film, plotting trips on a giant map of the country and leaving her sons occasionally with her sister in Texas.
Pelosi set out to capture the essence of why people from all over the world would renounce their birth land to adopt this country as their homeland. To become a citizen, one must be a permanent resident for three to five years; read, write and speak English, be of good moral character; pass a civics test; and take an oath of allegiance to the United States of America.
Considering the vitriolic dissatisfaction endemic among many born here, it's refreshing to watch those who desperately want be a part of the nation.
Pelosi hopes Americans who watch "feel a little grateful and just realize how good we have it here," she says.
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