House Of Sand And Fog Essay

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Vadim Perelman director of House of Sand and Fog. People never know how things can turn. Sometimes some circumstances out of people’s hands can change their lives and they only realize it when it is too late. In this movie, there are two main characters that essentially are fighting to own the same house. After watching the movie, the spectator could feel some kind of empathy for either of the two characters. From my point of view, Berhani acted in a correct way because he bought legally the house, and at the moment he bought it he did not know about the big mistake the county has made against Kathy. For these reasons I think Berhani and his family deserve to keep the house.
First of all, Berhani bought the house legally. He was waiting for an opportunity to invest his last savings so when he saw that there was a seized property for sale he did not doubt. Despite things were though for him since he fled his home country, he worked hard to keep the status of his family. Hence, he thought that buying this house all his dreams will come true, or at least it would be a good starting point. When he was informed that the property he had just bought had been unjustly seized he decided to fight for it and
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Her house was seized by mistake. According to the county’s argument, she had not paid business taxes. However, she never had a business therefore she had no any debt. Her big mistake was to ignore all the mail the county sent her to inform her about the eviction. So she had to suffer being a homeless person and her situation was getting worse because she was so immerse in a profound depression that did not let her to think clearly. Her main objective was to get her house back without realize that was not Behrani’s fault. Nonetheless she was very negligent and irresponsible because she ignored all her mail and the n she decided to have her house back. She does not follow the legal

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