This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs. This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal. The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society. The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
TS(杰瑞米·伦敦 Jeremy London 饰)的一句戏言导致女友博兰蒂不得不参加她父亲的电视相亲节目,而这也使他们的旅行计划泡汤,愤怒的TS甩手而去,找到老友鲍迪(杰森·李 Jason Lee 饰)寻求安慰。鲍迪的情况也很糟糕,女友蕾娜厌倦了他无所事事沉迷于漫画和电子游戏,果断分手去寻找浪漫爱情。失意的TS与鲍迪选择逛商场排遣烦闷,然而这里也不让人舒畅!博兰蒂父亲的电视节目正在这里搭台准备录制,正在追求蕾娜的时装店经理也处处找鲍迪的不痛快。决定反击的二人找来恶作剧二人组杰伊(杰森·缪斯 Jason Mewes 饰)和鲍勃(凯文·史密斯 Kevin Smith 饰)破坏搭台,与此同时,漫画大师、执着于3D图像的胖子、从事性学研究的少女等异人也在商场中悉数登场,TS和鲍迪要在一片混乱中发起自己的爱情保卫战。