House Of Sand And Fog
The two main characters of this film are Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), a recovering alcoholic who is struggling to maintain her sobriety while being faced with losing the family 's house that her recently deceased father had worked so hard for. Kathy had neglected the mail after her husband left and didn 't get the warnings from the state that her home would be repossessed if she didn 't pay off a delinquent business tax. Her home was put up for auction and sold, and now, Kathy has resorted to sleeping in the back seat of her car. Soon she becomes so obsessed with reclaiming the home that her father had left to her that she won 't stop until the new family is gone, at any price.
The home is sold to a Masoud Behrani (Ben Kingsley) who was a former …show more content…
The only bright spots in this movie are the acting of Ben Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo (Behrani 's wife). Meanwhile, Jennifer Connely makes a relatively good effort based on the awful character she was given. Maybe I missed something in the analyzing of this films bigger meaning because much of the film 's acclaim had gone for smearing the lines of right and wrong and for creating a conflict without an antagonist. "House of Sand and Fog" goes to great pains to impart a balanced portrayal..... Both sides are presented sympathetically, and the characters are developed as real people, with all the virtues and faults one might expect in these circumstances" (Berardinelli, 2003). First off, Kathy is an irrational, irresponsible, moron who disregards everything and loses her house as a result of it. Do I feel bad for her in the slightest? NO. Behrani in my eyes has done absolutely nothing wrong. He 's a hard working man who looked at a piece of property and made a sound investment in the hopes of making a better life for him and his family. When Kathy confronts Behrani and asks him why he won 't just sell the house back for the amount he bought it for and move on, he tells her it 's more complicated than that and that, if the state made an error, she should sue the state and buy TEN houses with the money she will get. You know what - HE 'S RIGHT! Why doesn 't Kathy take this suggestion
The home is sold to a Masoud Behrani (Ben Kingsley) who was a former …show more content…
The only bright spots in this movie are the acting of Ben Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo (Behrani 's wife). Meanwhile, Jennifer Connely makes a relatively good effort based on the awful character she was given. Maybe I missed something in the analyzing of this films bigger meaning because much of the film 's acclaim had gone for smearing the lines of right and wrong and for creating a conflict without an antagonist. "House of Sand and Fog" goes to great pains to impart a balanced portrayal..... Both sides are presented sympathetically, and the characters are developed as real people, with all the virtues and faults one might expect in these circumstances" (Berardinelli, 2003). First off, Kathy is an irrational, irresponsible, moron who disregards everything and loses her house as a result of it. Do I feel bad for her in the slightest? NO. Behrani in my eyes has done absolutely nothing wrong. He 's a hard working man who looked at a piece of property and made a sound investment in the hopes of making a better life for him and his family. When Kathy confronts Behrani and asks him why he won 't just sell the house back for the amount he bought it for and move on, he tells her it 's more complicated than that and that, if the state made an error, she should sue the state and buy TEN houses with the money she will get. You know what - HE 'S RIGHT! Why doesn 't Kathy take this suggestion