The story is touching, but: mourning.
The Middle East issue has been 3,000 years long, but half a century has been short. It has not been resolved until now, and it continues to radiate to a large area of unfortunate hot soil around it, making everyone unable to climb out of the quagmire of poverty, backwardness and hatred. One piece sank. Lebanon was once prosperous and open, the capital of Little Paris. As a result, 150,000 people were wiped out by a 15-year civil war, and now it faces a serious refugee problem. According to online data, Lebanon has a population of 6 million, 450,000 Pakistani refugees, at least 1 million Syrian refugees, 6,000 Iraqi refugees, and other sporadic refugees (for example, the young black mother in this film is from Ethiopia).
The new female director Labaki's concern focuses on refugee children, showing that they are living in hardships and shouting for the right to survive are only superficial demands. On a deeper level, the film asks the world: Who decides the right of birth? How to end the vicious generational cycle of poverty, ignorance and numbness?
One boy told me: "I don't understand why I was born if in my life no one would love me, no one would say a good word to me, no one would kiss me goodnight before I go to bed. "
The main body of the story of "Capernaum" is roughly divided into two parts, the first half is when the little male protagonist is at home, and the second half is when the little male protagonist leaves home. In the first half, the 12-year-old male protagonist was short and weak, but he was running around in all kinds of heavy manual labor to make a living. He tried to save his sister from the fate of child marriage, but failed. In the second half, the young male protagonist who ran away from home temporarily got The pity and protection of the young black mother, but soon his life underwent great changes. This 12-year-old boy, who was hungry and malnourished himself, had to shoulder the responsibility of raising the little black baby.
The image in the poster is the most heart-wrenching pain point of the film: the little male protagonist uses a stolen skateboard and a cauldron to make a small cart, carrying his little black brother, looking for food like a small animal, suffering Suffering to survive. His face was gloomy and his eyes were resentful. He was half stealing, half robbing, half cheating, half drug trafficking. He was not bound by any moral dogma, because he never had the opportunity to receive education. However, he was grateful to the black mother and never gave up with the little black baby; he was ingenious and resourceful; he gritted his teeth and never complained. ——And such kindness, intelligence and hard work will undoubtedly be slowly and tragically eroded and permanently buried in the darkness at the bottom of society.
[Slightly amazed at the director's ability to schedule babies. The little black brother who is more than 1 year old has a lot of drama. Every time he interacts with his mother and the little male protagonist, he can give an appropriate and cute response. The director must have spent a lot of effort and effort. 】
Although the movie gave a bright and hopeful tail, in reality you and I both understand that the future of the Middle East is not so optimistic. When I was a child, I heard Jiang Kun talk about Liang Zuo's cross talk "Extraordinary News", "Compared to other people in the Middle East, we don't have much noise here." Shouldn't we be glad we didn't reincarnate there.
PS: There are 9 shortlists of Oscar foreign language films this year, and I have watched 6: "Oscar Impression 6/9"
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