Why is home changed its name when it was released in China. Its original name was Capernaum. As for the explanation of the original title, the director Nadine & bull; labaki explained that 'Capernaum' means disorder and irregularity in French and English. Now let's introduce the specific content of how to be a home.
At the beginning of the film, there is a court prosecution. The little boy zain sued his biological parents because he gave birth to him.
Zain, a little boy living in a dirty and poor slum, has not been cared by his parents since he was born, and he even doesn't know when he was born.
He works for the landlord's house every day, carrying water and delivering goods, changing gas and selling juice. No matter whether his thin body can bear it or not, he has to do it anyway.
Because in addition to himself, there are seven younger brothers and sisters in the family. They are all taken care of by him alone. Compared with his parents, he is the real breadwinner.
Too small to bear the burden of life, zain is more mature than his age and has a clear understanding of many things.
One morning, he found that his sister Saha was in the physiological period.
Zain knows that for girls in their families, once the physiological period comes, it means they can get married.
This marriage is not a happy event, but is sold as a commodity by the parents. What's the purpose of the other party to buy it back is even more frightening.
Despite his careful concealment, zain could not escape his parents' eyes.
Soon, the landlord and his son, Assad, came to talk with them about the price. In order to get a good price, Saha was dressed up by his mother and finally replaced Saha with a chicken.
In fact, for parents, they don't think it's bad for Saha, just as they said in court: 'find a good family for her so that she can sleep in bed. '
For Saha's husband, Assad, this is also very normal: 'many girls around are married at this age, and my stepmother is. '
They say it naturally, which makes us more cool. They have long been accustomed to this seemingly unnatural phenomenon.
So it's not that they are ill, it's that the whole country is ill, and the deep-rooted misconceptions are passed down from generation to generation. They don't want to correct them, and they don't have the ability to correct them.
In order to protect his sister, zain decided to run away with her.
When he bought the bus ticket and came back to pick up his sister, he found that it was too late. Saha was going to be taken to Assad's house today.
No matter how he and Saha resist, they can't save their sister in the end. Zain runs away with anger and despair.
There are obvious levels in the development of the story to be told in the film. The first part ends here in his desperate escape. The second part, he meets rahil and her son Yunus.
Originally thought that zain finally had a safe haven to stop and rest, but rahil himself had a hard time.
As an Ethiopian, she had been working as a maid for a long time, but she had to leave her employer's home because she was unmarried and pregnant, so her identity became illegal detention.
In order to get a "residence permit", she tried various methods, and was finally found in detention when she went out for the first time.
It happened so suddenly that she couldn't tell zain at home, so 12-year-old zain took on the role of "father" and took care of Yunus.
A 12-year-old child is not only facing the dilemma of water and food shortage, but also being driven out of the house by the landlord and living in the street.
Looking at Yunus, who just can walk, zain said: "your mother is worse than my mother!"
Here, zain's yearning for maternal love is fully revealed. Compared with being abandoned by his mother since he was a child, he feels that at least he has his mother by his side. Although it's useless, he won't be helpless and will be better.
His desire for maternal love was also shown when he met rahil at the beginning, that is, he climbed onto the sculpture in the playground and tore off the clothes of the female sculpture. Lactation is a symbol of maternal love, he yearns for maternal love.
But it's not easy to survive in such an environment. It's hard for him to survive alone, not to mention with a baby.
In the desperate situation, zain accepted the advice of asplow, who helped to handle the fake card, and handed over Yunus to him. He helped zain sneak to Sweden on the premise that zain would go home to get his identity card.
This is the most struggling part of zain's heart. In order to survive, he has to do so, which is also the despair of the film.
When he has no right to choose and can't fight, he can't save his favorite sister. When he has the initiative, he can only give up Yunus.
The second part of the film ends in zain's sad tears. In order to escape the country, he is ready to go back to get his identity card.
But for a person of their identity, there is no proof of identity. He was not only abused and beaten by his parents, but also learned another bad news - Saha died.
Saha wanted to be sent to the hospital for treatment because of her pregnancy and abortion, but she was rejected because she had no identity certificate, and finally died at the door of the hospital.
Angry zain picked up the knife to find Assad, stabbed him and was sentenced to five years.
At the end of the film, he goes back to the court. On the surface, he is accusing his parents. In fact, he is also accusing the society and the country.
'I hope adults will listen to me. I hope people who can't afford to raise children won't be born again.
I only remember violence, insults, beatings, chains, pipes, belts.
The gentlest words I've ever heard are, 'get out, son of a bitch', 'get out, you trash'.
Life is a pile of shit, no more valuable than my shoes.
&#I thought we could live respectably and be loved by all. But God doesn't want us to. He'd rather we do the dishwasher. '
Every complaint here comes from their social background.
The problems of childbearing, education, child marriage, domestic violence and refugee status, together, lead to the final tragedy.
Reproduction is a biological instinct, but reproduction means more to human beings. It's not that you are born a parent, but that you have to learn how to be a parent, love and responsibility. There are no such two basic things as how to be a parent.
But that's just one point, for zain's parents, but there's another point, the whole social environment.
Rahil has a lot of love for Yunus, but they still can't enjoy the happiness that a normal mother and son should have, and they may be forced to separate because of what? Identification!
Every detail of the film is so real that it hurts, and such a real look and feel is all due to the director Nadine bull rabaki.
She spent a long time in the local investigation, shooting 500 hours of material in six months, and then editing it in a year and a half. The first version lasted 12 hours, and finally it was cut into the 126 minute version of Cannes Film Festival.
During the preparation of the film, the director found that many local children are very negative. They don't cry, laugh or play. Even if they put toys in front of them, they won't touch them.
In the eyes of these children, there is no glory of childhood at all, just like zain, who is extremely distressing in the film.
Zain himself is not a professional actor, he is a Syrian refugee, all the experience and feelings have personal experience, in the film he presents is not acting, but naturally revealed.
Only in the end did zain show his rare smile and yearning for a new life.
But although most of the films are true records of local life, in the end, they leave us a little light, which is the light of zain's court prosecution.
Originally in Lebanon, this was impossible because the law did not allow children to sue their guardians, but as the director said:
I don't want to naively say that movies can change the world, but if you can change your attitude towards these children or your own life, it can at least change you to a certain extent.
We were born to be children. Born to be human, children have always been our hope. But while we are pinning our hopes on our children, we should not forget that they are only children.