He laughed and we cried

Chadd 2022-03-21 09:02:33

"Zane, laugh." He laughed and I cried. It wasn't just me, the sobbing was evident in the theater. The film is over, but the sadness is not over, and across the screen, the despair in that world is not over either. "I'm going to sue my parents." "Why?" "Because they gave birth to me." There are a lot of kids who think like that, but they don't have the right to sue. The adults gave birth to them without any reason, and raised them like pigs and dogs.

Boys' labor, girls' bodies, are at their disposal. If it was just Zane himself, he would get used to this kind of fate, maybe when he grew up, he would become like his father, but the betrayal and death of his sister made him a protester. At the stage of running away from home, he met a mother and son who He also acted as the "parent" of the black baby for a certain period of time. When forced by life, he had to sell the baby, and Zane cried during the haircut. Are Zane's parents' cry justified? To a certain extent, they are all victims of war. Everyone wants to live a prosperous and stable life, but their defense is also powerless, because in their eyes, children are just tools and commodities.

A documentary-like effect, a true and cruel reflection of reality, Capernaum, the land of chaos and disorder, Jesus is not there, God is not there, the poor are like ants, the actors have no acting skills, and they don't need acting skills, they just reenact their lives. The condolences through the bars are extremely absurd, and the sympathy and reflection through the screen are not necessarily powerless.

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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.