The
Intruder is an Iranian film about a movie actor,
Dagdar, who gets mysteriously phone calls from someone who
identifies herself as "The Intruder." When The Intruder
calls Dagdar's wife, however, the phone is silent. When Dagdar
answers the phone, a threat is announced--exposure of his
past. Rather than calling the police, who might leak the story
to Iranian tabloids and harm his career, Dagdar tries to find
out who The Intruder is on his own. Meanwhile, Dagdar's wife
becomes nervous about the calls, suspicious that Dagdar is
having an affair with another woman, and leaves his home to
return to live with her parents. After relentlessly lying
in wait, Dagdar follows The Intruder one day to a shabby apartment.
He calls his wife to come to the address. Soon, he learns
that The Intruder was his wife's last boyfriend, who was so
crushed when she jilted him after a two-year relationship
that he is determined to break up Dagdar's marriage. After
his wife arrives, the boyfriend pulls out a gun and insists
that Dagdar confess the circumstances of his previous wife's
death (by suicide due to extraordinary jealousy and too many
tranquilizers is the official cause, though The Intruder suggests
otherwise). By this time Dagdar's wife realizes that she was
wrong to mistrust Dagdar. The gun changes hands a few times,
and ultimately nobody dies. Not a profound film, but yet another
to demonstrate the extent to which love can be irrational.
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