影片男主角的原型是一位伊朗裔，维多加拿大籍的记者巴哈里（Maziar Bahari）。2009年，维多巴哈里作为美国《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）驻伊朗记者，报道当年的伊朗总统大选。6月13日，选举委员会宣布艾哈迈迪-内贾德（Mahmoud Ahmadinejad）获胜后，其竞争对手的支持者上街游行，巴哈里拍下了这场被称为“伊朗绿色革命”的抗议活动。6月21日，他从德黑兰的家中被带走，经历118天的监禁后获释。其后巴哈里将自己的这段经历写成回忆录《Then They Came for Me》，于2011年出版。在书中，他描述自己遭到折磨和审讯，对方视他为潜入伊朗的间谍。由于双眼被蒙住，看不清提审人的面容，只闻到他身上的玫瑰香水味，巴哈里在书中就以“玫瑰香水”（Rosewater）称呼对方，影片的片名也是由此而来。
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回复 :汤姆（布鲁斯•邓恩 Bruce Dern 饰）和黛西（米亚•法罗 Mia Farrow 饰）的婚姻并不幸福，因为汤姆是一个花花公子，经常出去鬼混。汤姆还经常和与他们相邻的黛西的舅舅尼克一起出席舞会，寻欢作乐。尼克的邻居盖茨比是个神秘的有钱人，他经常邀请尼克参加宴会，两人很快相熟。相熟后，盖茨比（罗伯特•雷德福 Robert Redford 饰）邀请尼克带着他的侄女黛西来他家作客。此时，黛西认出了盖茨比。原来盖茨比是黛西5年前的恋人，只因当年盖茨比只是一个穷小子，为了改变命运而出国拼搏，黛西正是在这个时候与汤姆结了婚。两人很快旧情复燃。一次宴会，黛西又和汤姆吵翻了，借酒消愁的她酒后和盖茨比一起开车回家时不幸撞死了汤姆的情妇。为了昔日的情人，盖茨比决定挺身而出。
回复 :Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress
回复 :This film is not about the revolution that changed Ukraine this winter. Not exactly. It rather shows a universal pattern of particular kind of uprisings - those ones that end with bloodshed. At first, the noble endeavor for freedom collides with the dark force of repressive rulers. Then eventually, after much confusion and chaos, the righteous anger of people changes to pure outrage. And when the first casualties on both sides fall, no matter how black and white it seems from outside, the edge between good and bad blurs when one looks from the epicenter of a battle. And finally, all things ablaze.
