To add to my lazy days of summer, today I watched 2 movies: The Shanghai Ghetto and House of Sand and Fog. I borrowed both from the local library, and what a find. Both movies were excellent.
The Shanghai Ghetto recalls the strange-but true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930's. Left without options or entrance visas, a beacon of hope materialized for them on the other side of the world, and in the unlikeliest of places, Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, these Jewish refugees journeyed to form a settlement in the exotic city, penniless and unprepared for their new life in the Far East.
House of Sand and Fog is about strangers whose conflicting pursuits of the American Dream lead to a fight for their hopes at any cost. What begins as a struggle over a rundown bungalow spirals into a clash that propels everyone involved toward a shocking resolution.I highly recommend both movies.
