Anonymous people are not included in the statistics. An organization wants to help them, but they cannot find them accurately. ta will not learn about and enjoy due rights and benefits, replicating the tragedy of the original family for life.
The protagonists of the film are a group of unidentified people. The "identity" here is not an "identity" of social status, but an identity certificate that is not recognized by an authority. It is a matter of course to have an identity certificate, but in Lebanon in the film, it has become either irrational (the little boy's family of origin has never had the habit of applying for documents), or it is extremely difficult (the expensive purchase of fake certificates by Ethiopian female workers). ).
Each of us is born, told the year we were born, involved in a maturing system and growing up. For better or worse, there are mandatory benefits and entitlements at every stage. For example, vaccines and medical care after birth, the right to education when growing up, work when you grow up, and moving around. It's routine and basic. In the absence of family education and planning, these coercive measures can ensure people's most basic living conditions.
Well, if a person has no identity, the anonymous person is nowhere to be found in the whole system. They do not experience moments of encounter with formal institutions, and even avoid exposing themselves to the sun. That is to say: ta is not included in the statistics, and an organization wants to help ta, but cannot find ta accurately. ta will not learn about and enjoy due rights and benefits, replicating the tragedy of the original family for life. From this on, as the children say, "I hope they don't regenerate", because each will be a "disappearing" anonymous person far away from mainstream society.
Prison is the first encounter of the two protagonists with official institutions. This was not a good "meeting" with the system, but it was this encounter that made the little boy and the Ethiopian female worker speak up and ask for help. When families have no way to provide support and help, helpless individuals can only turn to huge government agencies and society.
Some anonymous people still "exist illegally" on a regional border, but they always try to keep themselves alive outside the system.
The whole film explores and presents the lives of such a group of anonymous people. Their lives are not good or bad, but with and without. Are there food and housing? These are the two most basic questions.
Therefore, their choice is in an extreme situation, it is really difficult to judge.
Without a place to live, she married her daughter to the landlord.
My sister, the child bride, does not have an ID card, let alone a marriage certificate.
Without identification, he was refused medical treatment by the hospital and eventually died.
Countless siblings will again be out-of-school children, non-existent people.
Ethiopian women workers have no status, and even if they fail to ask for wages, they have nowhere to appeal.
Uneducated, earning money by manual labor.
The little boy has no bed at home.
Small babies don't have milk powder, they eat ice cubes.
If you don't have money, steal a bottle.
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At the end of the film, the little boy is taking a passport photo, and he smiles for the first time. He began to obtain a legal document, but it was only one individual's successful escape. What about the rest?
By the way, the house in the film looks dilapidated and deserted. Most people know Beirut, the little Paris of the East, and the luxury of Elie Saab. But the Lebanese civil war started in 1975 and ended in 1990. That is to say, every post-80s generation in Lebanon has experienced war.
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