HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG

MY RATING



DIRECTED BY
Vadim Perelman

YEAR RELEASED
2003


PLOT OUTLINE
An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.

MY CRITZ
A well made and most depressing movie ever. No wonder it was nominated for the oscar. After watching this, I felt like I needed to see something... hmmm... happy. I hated Lester, a character played by Ron Eldard, he's so ignorant; a pure depiction of how a man sometimes think with their penis instead of their brain. As far as Kathy (Jennifer Connelly), she's just simply a mess. After loosing her father, battling alcoholism and her husband left her, the only thing she has left in her life is the house. But then it got taken away from her too. And now, all she wants is to get her house back, but she can't because Behrani (Ben Kingsley) has already bought it from the county's foreclosure auction. Which happened to be a mistake on the county's part. This movie is definitely a beautiful tragedy. The twist at the end is very clever, I didn't see it coming. Watch it, and you'll see how sometimes the so-called American Dreams is really only a dream.