How to evaluate Why Is Home? Is this movie good?

Twelve-year-old children took their parents to court and accused them of giving themselves life. At first glance, the story of the movie "Why Do You Do What You Do" is absurd, but when I really watch this movie, I will be moved by the tragic situation of the child who grew up in extreme poverty in the movie and will be lost in thought. The most precious bond in this world is family, but not everyone who can have children is qualified to be a parent.

As a realistic film, in How to Go Home, Lebanese-born female directors Nadine Labaki focuses on the lowest social stratum in his country. Through her lens, we see an incredible but so real country, from drug trafficking to child trafficking, from illegal immigrants to the most basic survival problems of children, everything here can be seen everywhere. It can be said that any point of this film can be extended into a profound film.

Zan, the hero in the movie, should be at school, looking forward to his future age, but he has to work hard for a living all day. Although Zan's family is a big family with seven brothers and sisters, it is not full of happiness and warmth. Zan's parents only beat and scold their children, and they are indifferent. Zan, who grew up in this family, has never felt much affection since he was a child. But the film gives him the responsibility of "father" through the development of the plot. The goodness of human nature revealed in this cruelty is the most humanistic concern of the film.

Faced with extreme poverty, young Zan doesn't want to change the past, from helping others to defrauding prescription drugs in pharmacies. He is only 12 years old and willing to do everything he can, but that's all. He still can't get rid of poverty. Poverty, like an invisible and powerful giant net, has deeply trapped the social stratum like Zan and passed it on from generation to generation, because in the past, if the lack of family in Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Know is just an example, then the social reality presented in Why Is Home is the truest epitome of many families in the Middle East.

In the film, children's complaints against their parents in court add new content to the film. When childbirth is no longer a responsibility, but just a sexual instinct, is it a blasphemy against life? In fact, by praising her mother's defense in court, it is not difficult to find that Zan's parents are not heinous gangsters. They can only say that they don't know how to educate their children correctly and can't shoulder their responsibilities as parents. Inherent ignorance will only make them regard children as commodities and tools. This kind of cognitive ignorance is closely related to a turbulent and deformed social situation, so the film satirizes social injustice and criticizes the imperfect social system more truly and forcefully.

A child's desperate home and world will constitute a bleak and chaotic social picture. This film may not change the current situation in Lebanon, but it is enough for everyone to examine whether they can be a qualified parent and shoulder the responsibility of a family. Poetry and books in literature/dreams