human suffering
—— "Why Home" film review
I didn't do any homework before watching the movie, and I only knew roughly that the movie was about a little boy in Lebanon. At the beginning of the show, I also asked a friend of mine a very low-level question: "Where is Lebanon? Africa or South America?" The answer: "In Central Asia." I turned on my mobile phone and found out, oh, the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, It was in the Middle East.
When we talk about the Middle East, what do we think of?
war. oil. crime. refugee. religion.
I remembered the clip I saw on the news network, and there were young people from several Middle Eastern countries leaning against the wall painted with faded graffiti. They have nothing to do, or it is a blessing to be able to stand so leisurely. The images that are not very clear only flashed for a few seconds on the TV news, and the word "data" was written in the upper right corner. That's all I've seen in the Middle East before.
People often talk about human suffering, and I often joke about everyday struggle with my friends, but I have never thought about what real "suffering" is, and I have never imagined it.
I saw low-rise buildings next to each other with mottled concrete walls; I saw a small market under a large white roof by the viaduct; I saw garbage heaps by the roadside, old clothes hanging on ropes, and Black tires on the roof. Children run around in the streets, disheveled and dirty; they sell their goods by the side of the road, or help in shops.
Zain appealed to his parents, asking why they gave him life. Why are innocent children born in this place one after another without the ability to raise them? In this land, drug addicts can be seen everywhere, girls will be betrayed by their parents to other men once they develop, and there is not even clear water in the water pipes.
Why did Zain know what kind of life she would face when Saha's menarche came? Zain's mother also married her current husband at the age of eleven or twelve, and gave birth to an unknown number of children one by one. Two generations, is every girl facing almost the same fate in life?
Zain's father said he was told that you are not a man without children. From Zain to the girl who sells wreaths, almost every child is struggling to make a living; is the meaning of a child a burden to the family or a tool for making money?
Zain said his parents shouldn't have given birth to them since they couldn't support them, is Rahil responsible for giving birth to Yonas?
Rahil is an undocumented homeless person from Ethiopia, and the little girl is a refugee from Syria. When Zain returned home and wanted to find his own documents, we learned that he did not have his own identification either.
Why is this country already like this, people from Ethiopia and Syria are still fleeing here? How do people live in their country? They are wandering around, where can they park?
In this place, children are unwilling to be born, but countless parents are recklessly giving birth to children, giving birth to boys to earn money for work, and to girls to sell them for money when she grows up. What is the meaning of life to such a society? They don't even have their own identification, as if they don't have the right to exist. "Your son died as soon as he was born. He doesn't exist. Even ketchup has a production date and an expiration date. He has nothing." A tall cross hangs in the middle of the low building. Zain even asked God to let them be born in the sky. Is this just for living like this?
All I can say is that there was no war.
When we talk about juvenile delinquency in the Middle East, when we talk about the lack of education, we always stand tall and put labels on our hats - that's what people there are like, low quality, savage and unreasonable. No one knows what kind of impotence that is: when survival is challenged, morality cannot take hold. Why not eat minced meat?
In the courtroom, the judge is high above, as if holding the scepter of morality, but when Zain's mother told her last resort, she was speechless. This is an incomprehensible gap brought about by the class gap, and people within the Zhu family will never know that the road is frozen to death.
I can feel that the film is trying its best to send a positive signal at the end. Yonas reunited with her mother, and Zain in real life also went to Northern Europe. It seems that something is getting better, but it seems that nothing has changed - not all children can go to other countries, and Rahil still cannot continue to live in this country. Countless lives are still coming, the world is still suffering, the world is so big, why is home?
At the end of the film, I hope that every brave child can be treated gently by the world. We see life in its cruelest form, yet we still long for even a little tenderness. Maybe it's also a spirit.
I hope everyone can no longer live to survive.
I hope every child can feel the warmth of a real "home".
The scenery of the Mediterranean Sea is obviously so beautiful, and I hope they will have the mood to stop and appreciate it one day.
btw: The film festival is really good, the viewing effect is super good. Although the theater is a bit far this time, the experience is very good.
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