So often the people in novels are at the mercy of the story - mere puppets of clever plot twists or of writers who want to showcase their ability to wring every possible bit of suspense from a situation. Lester Burdon is also in prison.It is rare in contemporary literature to read a book in which the characters are naturally allowed to make the decisions that propel the plot forward. Kathy wakes up in the hospital unable to speak and is later transferred to a prison. He then smothers his sleeping wife, and ends his own life. The Colonel is enraged, and strangles Kathy. When the Colonel returns home, Kathy is there. Kathy finds the Colonel and his wife and tries to resuscitate the Colonel, but it is too late. He poisons his wife by serving her tea with an overdose of her pain medication. The movie depicts the Colonel arriving at home after witnessing the death of his son. Second, the movie depicts the ending differently. The novel suggest these experiences in his youth led to some of the bad decisions made, first threatening the Colonel, and then kidnapping the Colonel and his family in order to force the Colonel into giving the house back to Kathy. Lester also endured bullying as a child, and young man. The movie mentions the abandonment, but provides no background. Lester’s father abandoned Lester and his family when Lester was a teenager. First, the book gives the reader more detail into Lester Burdon’s life. Two main differences exist between the movie and the novel. Shohreh Aghdashloo: Nadireh 'Nadi' Behrani.Jennifer Connelly: Kathy Lazarro Niccolo.The message of the film, according to most reviewers, seems to be that this is a proud man, broken by the cultural impasse that makes it as impossible for him to give up the house as it is for Kathy to let him have it. He then covers his own head with a plastic bag, tightly wraps packaging tape around the neck, lies down on the bed next to her, and, in one of the most grisly suicide scenes I’ve ever witnessed on TV or film, takes his own life as we watch the bag cloud with the moisture of his own breathing, and finally conform tightly to the contours of his dead face. In a final downward spiral of their lives, Massoud laces some tea with sleeping medication and feeds it to his wife Nadi. His father returns home, distraught and unable to tell his wife. On the steps of the courthouse, however, Colonel Massoud's teenage son Esmail grabs Lester’s gun, and, in a tragic confrontation, is shot dead by security officers. By the end of the film, he completely loses his moral compass, locks the Behranis in their bathroom overnight, and extracts a promise from Massoud that he will sign the house back over to the county, and ultimately return it to Kathy. One night, he goes to the Behrani home, breathing vague threats of investigations and probably deportation. As his sense of sexual moralityīecomes blurred, Lester’s sense of legal boundaries wavers, too. He has a wife and two kids, but cynically falls for this desperate single young woman. Into this volatile mix comes Lester Burdon, the deputy sheriff assigned to help Nicolo get moved out. Was her father’s dying legacy to her and her brother. Nicolo, on the other hand, has to get the house back: it Getting the house back through the courts may take months, and now Massoud Behrani wants not his original payment, but four times that amount: the current appraised value. The sale may be llegal on one level, but Kathy’s negligence has left her in a precarious position. She also doesn’t open her mail for weeks at a time, and so she misses the numerous warnings sent out by the county. The problem is, Nicolo is broke, doesn’t run a business, and has no taxes to pay. Having fled Iran, and now trying to pull their shattered lives back together, the father, Colonel Massoud Amir Behrani ( Ben Kingsley), buys a beachside bungalow in San Francisco that is being auctioned by the county because its owner, Kathy Nicolo ( Jennifer Connelly), cannot pay business taxes on it. Plot summary SPOILER WARNING: The following contains important plot details of the entire film.
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