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Another misfire is the narrative thread about Iranian convenience store owner Farhad and a Hispanic locksmith. The subplot about Daniel the locksmith (Michael Peña) initially seems promising. After stoically listening to Jean’s racial slurs, Daniel returns home to comfort his daughter after she imagines hearing a gunshot, in a scene that, surprisingly, manages to be touching without being sentimental...
Unfortunately, it’s downhill from there. While Farhad (Shaun Toub) is sympathetic for his familial tenderness, a scene in which he attempts to purchase a firearm reveals his detached instability. Farhad becomes progressively more unhinged as he makes unreasonable demands of Daniel after hiring...
...assuming the burden of the panorama of American ethnic tensions, needs his perfunctory Muslim character. And I guess they had to do something with Sandra Bullock after they cast her. Still, one wonders if the movie might not be better without the half-baked story lines of Farhad and Jean...
...When his bid for refugee status was rejected after the initial interview, Farhad appealed to the Refugee Review Tribunal, where he gave more details of his background. But immigration lawyers say applicants who appear to add new elements to their story at this stage are immediately under suspicion - Farhard was rejected there, too, and says the refugee review tribunal member hearing his case accused him of lying. What followed was a long legal fight over the tribunal's decision not to accept a letter he had received after his hearing from a senior Iranian cleric who supported Farhad's claim...
...from lawyers to medical advice, tracking down evidence to support asylum seekers' claims and lobbying for action on languishing cases. When lawyers are too busy to visit clients, or too far from remote detention centers, advocates frequently make the trip instead. "We do the legwork," says advocate Rossell. When Farhad's court appeal was being prepared, Bernadette Wauchope, of Port Pirie, South Australia, and another volunteer from Byron Bay, on the north coast of New South Wales, spent more than 130 hours collecting evidence that would eventually verify his claims. "The people who succeed are those who have Australian people...