A hard-working Iranian immigrant (Kingsley) uses all of his savings to buy the house from the county as an investment property. This is the story of a recovering alcoholic (Connelly) who loses her house due to an error on the part of the county. This is a trite melodrama, and though there is some fine acting by Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, and Shohreh Aghdashloo, if you think about the plot for one minute, the entire thing falls apart. In my nearly 30-year-old opinion, this is not a good movie. Re-watching House of Sand and Fog, I must admit that I’m a little embarrassed by 20-year-old me’s reaction.
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JR ended up being one of my closest friends in college, and it all begin with a trial by fire (crafted by Dante) quickly followed by water torture (the two of us sobbing in a mostly empty theater together).
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I can count on one hand the number of movies that have made me downright sob in the theater-most recently Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave (2013) and most vehemently Children of Men (2006) (a movie I’m still avoiding)-and here I was, watching a movie with someone I’d just met and bawling my eyes out. We decided to go see a movie together and, for one reason or another, we picked House of Sand and Fog. JR was a mid-year transfer, too, but instead of wallowing in awkwardness like myself, he was making up for lost time. I was sitting in one of my first classes-a huge lecture course on Dante’s Inferno-when this guy randomly turned to me and introduced himself. I had just moved to Santa Barbara to attend college, and I was feeling a little awkward since I was a mid-year transfer and everyone had already had a quarter’s worth of school to get to know one another. I wasn’t avoiding the movie because I thought it was bad or anything I’ve been avoiding 2003’s House of Sand and Fog primarily because it made me cry like a freaking baby when I first saw it in theaters.
I’ve been avoiding re-watching this movie for nearly ten years.
Our New Year’s Gift to You: Bri LaFond‘s hilarious live blog of her experience re-watching the extremely melodramatic House of Sand and Fog.
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