The so-called hope, the so-called price

Mireille 2022-03-22 09:02:06

The narration of the film is slow and deep, which caused me a moment of stunnedness after watching it.

The colonel said: When I was in the Caspian Sea, I cut down the trees along the coast so that I could see the sea from the terrace of the house.
Then there was the escape of their family, who spent all their savings in order to make their daughter a decent marriage. During the day, I do heavy work on the construction site. After get off work, I go to the hotel bathroom to change into clean and decent clothes. The major life gap did not overwhelm him, because there is still hope in his heart, hoping to settle down, have his own house, and no longer be disturbed and live in exile.

Cathy's decadence and unwillingness to face reality are like many young people who are just getting by. The house she lives in was auctioned off by the state government. So, displaced. In the movie, her family only appears on the phone, and once the mother calls and says: I will come to see you with your aunt on the 18th. Another time she called her brother. There are always too many moments in life that we can't face and bear. If the family is around, it may really be a kind of happiness.

The story revolves around the house by the sea. Two people who were originally unrelated to each other suddenly stood on opposite sides of each other, so that their original lives were completely destroyed.

Desperate, cathy attempted suicide and was rescued by the colonel. After swallowing the medicine, he was rescued by the colonel's wife. When you see this, you will feel that there is a turning point in everything.
In the end, cathy's lover kidnapped the colonel and his son to go to the state government to sign the transfer agreement. There was a dispute on the way, and the son died unexpectedly. The colonel prayed in Islamic rituals alone in the hospital lounge. It's too late.

People are always involuntarily controlled by their desires. If they walk in the fog, they will always be at a loss and can't tell the direction. Sometimes it's not hatred that destroys our lives, it's the hope we hold. And it is inseparable from the sum of hope and cost.

cathy rushed back to the house from the sea, the colonel and his wife were lying quietly in the bedroom, at this moment, it was the relief for them, they could go back to their hometown, go back to the terrace of the old house, and see the endless sea in front of them. There is a past.

cathy curled up beside them like a baby.

the end

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  • Hugh 2022-03-25 09:01:11

    Life is over, does it still matter who owns the house? (From this movie, I discovered that Jennifer Connelly's back is very similar to Keira Knightley, and both of them are equally beautiful and temperamental.)

  • Earnestine 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    What kind of role is JC playing this time, abandoned by her husband, depressed and self-sabotage all day long, and lost her house because of her negligence and the government's mistakes. Instead of fighting to protect their legal rights, they do everything possible to target the buyers of the house. I was incapable of hooking up with a police officer. This police officer looked sane, but in fact, it took only a few days for him to covet beauty and abandon his wife and children. The two of them scold JC's bastard husband, but what's the difference between the police officer and him. Although the colonel's family had left their hometowns in exile, the dignity of the upper class was deeply imprinted in their bones, forming an excellent contrast with the two lower-class aborigines. A tragedy of human relations is the mutual harm at the bottom, and it is also the desire to have a home.

House of Sand and Fog quotes

  • Nadi: [to Massoud, in Farsi] I didn't come to America to live and walk the streets like a filthy Arab! I came to America to LIVE!

  • Behrani: [to Kathy] You think you can frighten me? You think you can frighten me with your stupid deputy coming here telling me lies?

    [Grabs Kathy by the arm and frog-marches her down the path]

    Behrani: What do you think I am? Tell me that. Am I stupid? You think I'm stupid?

    Nadi: [Following them] Don't!

    Behrani: In my country, you're not worthy to raise your eyes to me. You're nothing! And you can tell your deputy friend his superior officers know everything!

    [Opens Kathy's car and shoves her inside the driver's seat, banging her head]

    Behrani: You tell him that! This is our home!

    Kathy: Please...

    Behrani: OUR HOME!

    Nadi: [In Farsi] Leave her alone! That's enough!

    [In English]

    Nadi: Please, stop! Please, to stop, Behrani!

    [Kathy drives off. Massoud glares at Nadi]