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Film Review | "What Is Home": Happiness is not taken for granted

A 12-year-old boy took his biological parents to court for the crime: They gave birth to me!

What kind of despair and sadness is this? !

The film "What Is Home", co-produced by Lebanon, France and the United States, tells such a depressing story.

Abandonment and Protection

The male protagonist Zane’s parents are refugees without status, so they are unable to find a normal job and their life is difficult and chaotic. However, they are struggling at the bottom of society, but they have children one after another. The children, like their parents, have no status and have been crowded into shabby, cramped, messy and dark rental houses since childhood.

Of course, they have no right to education. 12-year-old Zane could only work in Assad's grocery store. He watched helplessly as the school bus with colorful schoolbags hanging on the front stopped in front of him every day after school, and the children of the same age got off the bus happily and went home. .

At this time, it was also time for Zane to "go home from get off work." However, every day he returns to his home full of hatred.

If he wasn’t particularly smart, Zane’s “hate” for his family might just stop there. As he later said in court: He grew up slowly in suffering, waiting to grow up to be a good person and a respected person.

However, this sensitive and melancholic young man suddenly realized in his hopeless life: he would never have such an opportunity. He can only live in a dark corner forever like his parents, like a roll of carpet that will always be stepped on.

So, he wanted to escape.

Because the 11-year-old sister Saha was forced to marry Assad. He decided to run away with his sister. In the end, the sister was stopped by her family, but Zane dragged a blue garbage bag and began the lonely and long road of "homelessness".

During his wandering days, he met Lale, a refugee from Ethiopia who also had no identity. Lale had a son out of wedlock - Jonas. He was taken away to prevent his son from being discovered. She locked her son in the bathroom of the hotel where she worked, hid him in a shopping cart, and locked him in a rented house with closed doors and windows.

She loves her son. Even in a desperate situation, she did not hesitate to reject the suggestion of giving her child up for adoption in exchange for a legal identity for free. Although, this adoption could lead to a bright future for Jonas.

Perhaps Lale’s desperate protection of his son moved Zane, who had felt neglected, abused and even abandoned by his parents since childhood;

He lived with Lale and Jonas. Together.

Perhaps to make up for the guilt deep in his heart for failing to protect his sister Saha;

He loves Jonas as much as his own brother.

These three people - three people without identities, are like earthworms living in the soil and unable to see the sun, clinging to each other for warmth.

However, such "living" happiness was soon broken. Lale, whose fake ID card expired, was taken into a cell, leaving Zane at a loss and Jonas waiting for food.

When Zane couldn't hold on anymore and decided to leave Lebanon and return home to look for something to prove his identity, he found that not only was there not a single item to prove himself. Moreover, sister Saha has died due to childbirth. The reason why the hospital refused to admit Saha was still-she had no identity!

In anger and despair, Zane picked up a sharp knife and rushed towards Assad, whom he thought was the "culprit"...

However, was Assad the culprit?

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

Are Zane's parents the culprits?

Of course they are not qualified parents. However, the criteria for “qualification” are inherently difficult to define. What's more, they themselves are people with no identity and no autonomy. In the words of Zane's father: "Anyone can abuse us." And his mother said: "I have been living in pain all my life. In order to support my children, I worked any job." She questioned Zane's defense lawyer, who also Nadine, a woman but well-educated: "Have you ever lived a life like mine? You haven't! As long as you live one day, you will want to commit suicide, and it will be over."

Zane's mother is not She doesn't love her children - even Saha who was forced to get married by her. But maybe, there is really nothing she can do. Keeping them alive is the best she can do - even if the children may not want to live like this!

Hope and Reality

Much of "Home" is depressing. Dirty, dark tones and shots; low, sad music; a refugee camp riddled with holes, rags and smoke. This is the real world Zane lives in.

However, occasionally there is a glimmer of hope shining through.

The wandering Zane passed by the amusement park and got on the Ferris wheel alone. The Ferris wheel rises slowly from the dimly lit ground. The world in Zane's eyes began to shine.

When the Ferris wheel reaches the highest point, you can see that this is a coast: as far as the eye can see is the vast and calm sea, and the sunset in the distance is a pink afterglow.

What a wonderful world!

However, in just a moment, the Ferris wheel returned to the dark ground. Over the sea, a fleet of planes roared over. A sleepy Sane slept on the concrete floor with half a bag of instant noodles in his hand. A bug crawled by.

Perhaps, from God's perspective, we are all that insignificant little bug.

There is also a set of pictures.

After Lal disappeared. Zane found a "good business" selling "tramadol drinks" (a copycat drug). He mingled among gangsters, and after being humiliated and beaten severely, he managed to save a little money.

One night, in the rental house left by Lale, he spread out a travel advertisement he had picked up on the bed and said to Jonas, who was babbling, "I want to go there" Which country? You say!" He even fantasized about taking "that stupid Mason" with him, the girl he met in the market.

What a heartwarming picture this is.

However, the next day, when he dragged Jonas home, he found that all the pitiful belongings were outside the house. The landlord changed the locks. And the money that Zane finally saved and stuffed in the bed frame will never be returned.

He smashed at the lock frantically—with rocks and wooden bars. However, to no avail.

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

Home and Country

The film is called "What is Home". On the surface, it is about a 12-year-old wandering boy who longs for a home and the love of his parents, but he also A story about hating home and running away from home after losing the love of his parents.

The subtitles at the end of the video are: May every child be treated with tenderness.

However, is it limited to this?

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

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

Because Zane’s parents have no status, they cannot find jobs and cannot provide their children with a normal home.

Because Zane has no identity, he cannot go to school like other children of the same age.

Because Saha had no identity, no hospital was willing to treat her when she suffered heavy pregnancy bleeding, and she died.

Because Lale has no identity, he can only hide in Tibet with his son...

And the reason why they have no identity is because they have no homeland, they are a group of refugees!

At the beginning of the film, amidst the depressing cello accompaniment. A group of half-grown teenagers travel through a war-torn and abandoned city. They fired at each other with machine guns made of wood, and they smoked like adults. When they pointed their guns at their companions, their faces were still filled with innocent smiles, but a cruel light suddenly flashed in their eyes.

Maybe they don’t fully understand what their lost home means to them?

Perhaps, they have been accustomed to the life from the moment they were born.

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

"What Is Home" still gives people some comfort at the end.

Syrian refugee Mason is going to Sweden with his parents.

Lal also found his long-lost son.

The child who plays Zane in the film (the film is said to be adapted from his real experience) changed his destiny because he was accidentally discovered by the casting director and filmed this film. Now he has immigrated to Norway with his family, and he is just like a sunny and handsome boy...

At that moment, I suddenly realized: Does Zane really hate his home and his parents? Actually it’s not! Otherwise, why would he immigrate with his whole family? After all, blood is thicker than water, and what he hates is only the fate that cannot be changed - his parents may be even more unfortunate than him.

However, after remaining calm for 120 minutes in the theater, I burst into tears because of the bright ending at the end.

If you don’t let me see that there is still light, maybe the darkness will not be so unbearable.

Because the probability of this light appearing is so small!

What will the Mason family encounter after they go to Sweden? The debate over refugees is intensifying in the Western world. It seems that everyone has some sense.

Will Lale's life change after finding Jonas? Who can guarantee that when Jonas grows up, Zane won’t feel abandoned? Perhaps, not even as good as Zane.

The fate of Zane and his family was completely changed because of "What to Call Home". But, how many people in this world will be as lucky as Zane?

There are more or less sensitive and melancholic young men like Zane. They may have lived their entire lives without having an identity. They suffered like this and slowly grew up, becoming like the parents they hated. Just like their parents, who gave birth to a group of children with no identity, their children still grew up with hatred for them, just like they did back then...

Children and grandchildren, endlessly, endlessly.

The original English name of "What is Home" is "Capernaum". The reason why it was changed to its current name. I suspect that firstly, the religious color of "Capernaum" is too strong, and secondly, most Chinese audiences don't understand its meaning. For Chinese people who have always valued family values ??and family ties, the four words "what is home" are obviously more touching.

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

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

The name of the film seems to imply hope for redemption?

However, who can save all living beings from suffering?

May everyone be treated with kindness!

When I walked out of the theater, the weather in early summer was bright and sunny, spreading warmth on my body. What you see in front of you is completely different from the world in the film.

Suddenly I felt that our country and our lives are so beautiful and we should cherish them.

After all, happiness is not a given.