"I hope all parents who can't raise their children well, don't have children."

Alta 2022-04-22 07:01:41

"I hope every kind child in the world can be treated with kindness." This is the line at the end of the film, when the protagonist of the real event is interviewed. I was very depressed watching the whole movie. Zane was only twelve years old, and life had already overwhelmed him. He was keenly aware of the malicious intentions of the people around him. He could calmly and methodically help his sister deal with her menstrual period. Juice works part-time to make money, but when I passed the playground, the light in his eyes made me feel sad. After boarding the Ferris wheel, his face rose from the darkness to the sun, and he turned his head to look at the sun, it was so beautiful. For the last 20 minutes, Zane's monologue and that laugh at the last ID photo brought me to tears. The domestic version has a more gentle and poignant translation of this passage, "I hope all parents who can't raise their children well will not have children." Unable to take on the responsibility of caring for and educating another little being. If I don't have enough preparation and effort, and don't have a good enough environment and conditions for my future children to grow up safely, healthily and happily, I will feel that it is a mistake to bring this life into this world. In this movie, parents are just the last straw that breaks the camel's back. There are too many other things that have caused this tragedy, and the reality is heavy. I hope every child can live a healthy life in the sun. Although it is too difficult.

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  • Kaitlin 2022-01-05 08:02:02

    Here, a girl is a commodity that can be exchanged for money; a boy is a tool responsible for supporting the family and taking care of smaller children. Parents only care about birth, regardless of raising, and treat their children as cash cows and free labor. Not only can they not bring happiness to their children, they will only bring them suffering and torture. Now everything needs to be verified, but parents don't need to be verified. However, not everyone is worthy of being a parent, and it is not that when a child is born, it is automatically a mother. They only want to be happy for a while, let their children come to this world with them and suffer together, they are not worthy to be parents at all. If you can't give your children happiness, they shouldn't be born in the first place. They are your children, but they are themselves, they have their own personality and thoughts, they should not be abused, and they should not be trafficked. Parents have the obligation to discipline their children, and children also have the right to take their parents to court. Zane doesn't want anything, he just wants his parents not to have another child. Because before a person has learned how to be a qualified parent, he is not worthy of having children, let alone being a father (mother).

  • Leanna 2022-03-24 09:02:43

    It is no exaggeration to say that Labaki used one film to stand on the same level as his predecessors, Abbas (documentary and fiction, children's films) and Hirokazu Shiekeda (non-blood families at the bottom). How to distinguish the real from the miserable? It depends on whether the creator really stands with the characters. It was obviously another demonstration of handheld photography, and the piercing pain that pierced through the screen reminded me of "Little Guy" in Cannes that same year. The switching of viewpoints is not abrupt, and the intervention of the soundtrack is not promiscuous. Completely shocked, from the physical to the psychological level. The little male protagonist is so precocious that it is distressing, and the interrogation of the parents' souls at the end of the film is succinct and accurate. I once complained that the Chinese version of the poster looks like a fake boy, and I have to come back and apologize after watching the movie. #BJIFF9#

Capernaum quotes

  • Zain: Your words pierce my heart. I no longer want to see you. You're heartless.

  • Zain: I want to make a complaint against my parents. I'd want adults to listen to me. I want adults who can't raise kids not to have any. What will I remember? Violence, insults or beatings, hit with chains, pipes, or a belt? The kindest words I heard were get out son of a whore! Bug off, piece of garbage! Life is a pile of shit. Not worth more than my shoe. I live in hell here. I burn like rotting meat. Life is a bitch.I thought we'd become good people, loved by all. But God doesn't want that for us. He'd rather we be washrags for others. The child you're carrying will be like I am.