Ben Kingsley's character in the film is a former Iranian Air Force colonel who was forced to leave their beautiful home by the Caspian Sea in Iran for political reasons, and went into exile in the United States with his wife and children. At his daughter's luxurious wedding, the Colonel's brown skin made the former comrades who attended the wedding envious, thinking that the retired Colonel lived a prosperous and leisurely life. They don't know that this scenery is just an appearance.
In order to maintain his livelihood after living in exile in the United States, the colonel, who is over 500 years old, wore dirty work clothes during the day as a coolie to build a highway. After finishing work, he changed into another set of work clothes and rushed to a convenience store to work as a salesperson. Despite this, the colonel did not give up his dream of rebuilding a beautiful home in a foreign country. A low-price auction announcement in the newspaper gave him hope.
He didn't know that it was this home that filled him with hope, and finally let him fall into the abyss of nightmares and never wake up again.
Casey, played by Jennifer Connor, the owner of the building. The failure of her marriage changed her life. She was decadent and negative, and she had no intention of taking care of her life and home, so that the tax officials who seized the property came in front of her, only to know that her house was in danger of being auctioned because of the government's mistakes. Kathy, who was forced to leave her home, began her efforts to retake it.
She didn't know that this home, which contained all her memories, eventually became the grave of others, and there was no warmth in it.
Burton, the local acting sheriff, is in charge of the auction of the home. He has a pair of lovely children and a wife who is like a good friend, and his life is uneventful. Until he met the despairing Casey, his peaceful life was like being thrown into a pebbled lake, forming a circle of water ripples, which eventually turned into a turbulent wave that subverted everything. Since then, life has never returned to the simple tranquility it once was.
In fact, in the beginning, everything was fine.
The colonel's family, his daughter has just married a good family, the colonel and Bodhisattva's heart-hearted wife respect each other, the kind-hearted son is mature and sensible, and works as a postman to help his father share the responsibilities. Although the life of the family is hard, but they love each other and accompany each other warmly.
Everything that is beautiful is destroyed, which makes people extremely anxious and unbearable.
Watching the Colonel's kind-hearted son hold a gun to Burton, who had originally held their father and son hostage, but was eventually shot down by the police; watching the Colonel sit in a police car and watch his son who was shot by the ambulance take him away. Unable to follow, in desperation, he shouted his son's name over and over again, "I am here"; watched the colonel kneeling on the ground, praying to God to save his son over and over; watching the colonel staring blankly at his son's body in a daze watched the colonel endure his grief and gave his wife a deadly poisonous drink, told his wife to take her back home; watched the colonel wrap the plastic tape around his head with a bandage and lay dead. Beside his wife, he died of suffocation.
I clearly felt this suffocating despair, unable to breathe.
Casey, isn't it a victim too?
After her failed marriage, she has already felt the coldness and helplessness of a person, and she has to face the confiscation of her house for no reason. The displaced she can only curl up in the car for the night and wash in the public bathroom; Back in reality, helpless and desperate, she once wanted to burn down her home with gasoline, but she gave up because of her kindness. Frustrated, she tried to end her life with a pistol at the gate of her home, but was stopped in time by the kind-hearted colonel; she also thought of taking medicine to commit suicide, and was finally rescued by the bodhisattva's hearted colonel's wife.
She used to be the enemy she tried to drive out, but she helped her when she was most hopeless. Warmth, little by little, flooded into my heart.
Originally, everything could be happy. As long as Burton gets the money, they can start over; and the Colonel's family can own a home. It's just a tragic story that reality has no originals, and reality has no assumptions. She ended up facing the cold corpses of the Colonel and his wife.
what is it? Make these tragedies irreversible? Why did a home that was supposed to bring shelter, warmth, happiness and hope to its owner finally overturned the fate of three originally unrelated people? Make the original owner homeless? Let the colonel's family of three be forced to leave the world and seek liberation in heaven? Let Burton repeat the same mistakes of his father abandoning his children, and finally his wife and children are separated and he is imprisoned to live?
The root cause is the evil American government!
This house, which has never entered the market, was forced to auction because of the government's wrong registration and wrongly generated taxes. All tragedies start here.
The afterthought of this film is that when I feel bad for the protagonist in the film, I also have hatred for the "evil American government".
Unfortunately, the tragedy is irreversible.
Even if it's just a movie, it's a story.
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