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Film Review | Why Home: Happiness is not taken for granted.

A boy of 12 years old sued his biological parents for giving birth to me!

What kind of despair and sadness is this? !

The film How to Go Home, co-produced by Lebanon, France and the United States, tells such a depressing story.

Abandon defense

The parents of Zan, the hero, are refugees without identity. They can't find a normal job and their life is difficult and chaotic. However, they struggled at the bottom of society and gave birth to one child after another. Children, like their parents, have no identity and have been squeezed into dilapidated, cramped, messy and dark rental houses since childhood.

Of course, they also have no right to receive education. /kloc-Zan, 0/2 years old, can only work in Assad's grocery store. Every day after school, he looks at the school bus with colorful schoolbags standing in front of him, and children of the same age get off and go home happily.

At this time, it is time to praise "coming home from work". However, he returned to his home with hatred every day.

If he is not particularly clever, Zan's "hatred" for his hometown may only stop there. As he later said in court: grow up slowly in suffering, waiting to grow up to be a good person and a respected person.

However, this sensitive and melancholy teenager, in a hopeless life, suddenly realized that he would never have such an opportunity again. Like his parents, he can only live in a dark corner forever, like a roll of carpet that has been trampled under his feet forever.

So he tried to escape.

Because 1 1 year-old sister Saha was forced to marry Assad. He decided to run away with his sister. In the end, my sister was stopped by her family, but Zan dragged a blue garbage bag and started a lonely and long road of "homelessness".

During his wandering days, he met a refugee from Ethiopia, Lale, who also had no identity. Lala has an unmarried child-Jonas. He was taken away so that his son would not be found. She locked her son in the hotel toilet, hidden in a shopping cart and locked in a rented house with closed doors and windows.

She loves her son. Even in desperation, she did not hesitate to refuse the suggestion of giving up her child for adoption and exchanging it for legal status for free. Although, this adoption may give Jonas a bright future.

Perhaps Lala's desperate protection of her son touched the praise that she felt neglected, abused or even abandoned by her parents since she was a child;

He lives with Rahl and Jonas.

Perhaps it is to make up for the deep guilt of not protecting my sister Saha;

He loves Jonas as much as his brother.

These three people-three people without identity, like earthworms who live in the dirt and can't see the sun, snuggle up to each other for warmth.

However, this "struggling" happiness was quickly broken. Lal's fake ID card expired, and he was put in a cell, leaving Zan at a loss and Jonas starving.

However, when Zan decided to leave Lebanon and go home to find something to prove his identity, he found that there was not only nothing to prove himself. And my sister Saha has died in childbirth. The reason why the hospital refused to admit Saha was-she had no identity!

Sad and desperate Zan picked up a sharp knife and rushed to Assad, the "culprit" he thought. ...

However, is Assad the culprit?

He may really despise women. But in his mind, tradition has always been like this. As he said in court: "My mother-in-law (Saha's mother) was married and had children at that age."

Are awesome parents the culprit?

Of course they are not qualified parents. However, the standard of "qualified" is inherently difficult to define. Besides, they are all people who have no identity and cannot make their own decisions. In the words of praising my father, "anyone can humiliate us." My mother said, "I have lived in pain all my life, and I have done everything to raise my children." She questioned Zan's defense lawyer Nadine, who is also a well-educated woman: "Do you live my life?" You didn't! As long as one day, you will want to commit suicide and get over it. "

Zan's mother doesn't love her children-even Saha, whom she forced to marry. But maybe, she really can't. Keeping them alive is the best thing she can do-even though the children may not want to live like this!

Hope and reality

Most of the time in How to Go Home is very depressing. Dirty, dim tones and lenses; Deep and sad music; A refugee cave full of holes, rags and smoke. This is the real world that praises life.

However, occasionally there is a ray of hope shining.

Tramp Zan crossed the amusement park and boarded the Ferris wheel alone. Ferris wheel rises slowly from the dimly lit ground. The world in Zan's eyes began to shine. When the Ferris wheel rises to the highest point, you can see that it is a coast: what you can see is a vast and calm sea, and the sunset in the distance is pink.

What a wonderful world!

However, in a blink of an eye, the Ferris wheel returned to the dark ground. On the sea, a group of planes roared past. The sleepy Shane slept on the concrete floor with half a bag of instant noodles in his hand. A bug crawled over.

Perhaps, from God's point of view, we are all insignificant bugs.

There is also a set of pictures.

After Laura disappeared. Zan found a "good business" selling "tramadol drink" (a fake medicine). He hung around among hooligans and saved some money after being insulted and beaten.

One night, in the rental house where Lale left, he spread out a picked-up travel advertisement on the bed and said to Jonas, who speaks babbling, "Which country do you want to go to?" You say it! "He even fantasized about going with the girl" that fool Mei Sen "he met in the market.

What a warm picture this is.

However, the very next day, when he dragged Jonas home, he found that all his possessions had been left outside. The landlord changed the lock. The money saved by Zan and the things put on the bedstead will never come back.

He frantically smashed the lock with stones and sticks. However, to no avail.

That poor, humble hope, like a soap bubble, was shattered in an instant.

Home and country

This movie is called "Why Go Home". On the surface, it is a story of a homeless teenager aged 12 who longs for a home and parents' love, but hates home and runs away from home after failing to get parents' love.

The subtitle at the end of the film is: May every child be treated gently.

However, is it limited to this?

With the development of the plot. You will find that all the homeless people in the film have one thing in common-they are refugees without identity.

"Identity" is a dark cloud hanging over everyone's head and the root of all suffering.

Zan's parents can't find a job and give their children a normal home because they have no identity.

Zan can't go to school like children her age because she has no identity.

Saha died, because she had no identity, and no hospital was willing to treat her when she was pregnant and bleeding.

Lale has no identity, so she has to hide with her son. ...

And they have no identity, because they have no motherland, they are a group of refugees!

At the beginning of the film, in the depressed cello accompaniment. A group of teenagers shuttled through the cities destroyed and abandoned by the war. They shoot at each other with machine guns made of wood, and they smoke like adults. When they pointed their guns at their companions, their faces were filled with innocent smiles, but suddenly a cruel light flashed in their eyes.

Perhaps, they haven't fully understood what the lost home means to them.

Perhaps, they have been used to this kind of life since they were born.

But they will eventually pay the price-although it is not their fault; Moreover, it may not only be them, but also their descendants.

Finally, how to go home still gives people some comfort.

Syrian refugee Mei Sen will go to Sweden with his parents.

Lale also found her long-lost son.

The child who plays Zan in the film (the film is said to be based on his real experience) was accidentally discovered by the casting director and made this film, thus changing his fate. Now he has emigrated to Norway with his family, just like a sunny and cheerful little handsome boy. ...

At that moment, I suddenly realized: Does Zan really hate his family and parents? Actually, it is not! Why else would he emigrate with his whole family? After all, blood is thicker than water, and what he hates is an unchangeable fate-his parents, perhaps more unfortunate than him.

However, I was calm in the cinema for 120 minutes, but I was in tears because of this last bright tail.

If you don't let me see the light, maybe the darkness is not so unbearable.

Because, how small is the probability of this light!

What will happen to the Mei Sen family after they go to Sweden? The debate about refugees in the western world is getting worse. It seems that everyone has some truth.

Will Laura's life change after finding Jonas? Who can guarantee that Jonas will not feel abandoned when he grows up? Maybe it's not even as good as praise.

Because of how to go home, the fate of Zan and his family has completely changed. However, how many people in this world will be as lucky as Zan?

More or less, he is a sensitive and melancholy teenager. He may have lived all his life without identity. In this way, they grow up slowly and become parents they hate. Like their parents, they gave birth to a group of children without identity, and their children are still growing up with hatred for them, just like them. ...

Children and grandchildren, the cycle is endless.

The original English name of How to Go Home is Capernaum. I changed it to my current name. I think it's because Capernaum is so religious that most domestic audiences don't understand its meaning. For China people who have always attached importance to family values and affection, the word "why go home" is obviously more touching.

However, the English original name "Capernaum" also has a meaning, which is not carried in the current translation.

Capernaum is a place name in the Bible. Near the Sea of Galilee, it is now in ruins. It is said that Jesus moved here when he began to preach. Jesus was unpopular in his hometown of Nazareth, so he went to Capernaum, a center where he preached, where many miracles and important things happened.

With this name, the film seems to have the intention of looking forward to redemption?

However, who can save all sentient beings from suffering?

May everyone be treated gently!

Walking out of the cinema, the weather in early summer is sunny and warm. Everything in front of me is completely different from the world in the film.

Suddenly I feel that our country and our life are so beautiful that we should cherish them.

After all, happiness is not taken for granted.