The Middle East is the birthplace of the earliest human civilization and the origin of human faith. Today it is both a place of suffering and a place of taboo. Countless wars and unforeseen religious constraints. Today I would like to introduce an excellent work in recent years, "How to Be Home".
Middle Eastern Film "What a Home"
Based on true events, it was produced over a period of five years, using people who really lived in the background of the film as actors. The current situation of the lebanese underclass has been restored, and the tears continue.
Younger siblings in the slums
It's a slum in Lebanon, with a family of eight or nine people crammed into a room, dirty and messy, big and small, and all the children are not in school. Older children have to do child labor: send gas, sell water, wash dishes, etc. The money earned was exchanged for food to take home for younger siblings to eat. Several of the family's brothers went to jail. In this home, going to jail has become a common thing.
Zain is doing child labor
Zain, 12 years old. The protagonist of the story. The younger sister Saha is 11 years old. They are the best brothers and sisters. Zain loves his sister Saha very much. Every day, I take my sister out to work and take care of my sister.
Zain and his sister Saha
Zain's house is rented. They owe rent for a long time. The landlord's son took a fancy to Saha. The adult man came to Saha's parents to propose. Mom and Dad were ecstatic: their rent had finally fallen. They were going to marry Saha to this man.
Son of the landlord
Saha begged his mother bitterly: Mom, please, I don't want to leave. Zain also begged his mother: Mom, she is still a child, don't take him away. But the parents were desperate. Whatever is said, it is indifferent.
Zain begged his parents not to send saha away
Zain thought about it and decided to take his sister to escape the family. However, his travel plans were discovered by his parents. His parents beat him up. Her father forcibly took Saha to the car and took her to her husband's house.
The parents forcibly took Saha away
In desperation, Zain left the family alone and went to a foreign country. As the car passed by a children's playground, it attracted Zain, who decided to get off here.
Single mom Tigers
Here he met his single mother: Tigers. A single mother full of maternal love. She is from Ethiopia, who came to Lebanon to work, whose visa has expired and is now in illegal detention. As a result, she could not show her face with her children. She went out alone to work as a black worker. Jean Zain took his son Yunus Jr. to the house.
Little Yunus in deep sleep
Zain found the warmth of a long-lost home. But the good times did not last long, and Tigers did not return from work for some reason. After a day of waiting, two days, Tigers had not returned. He took little Yunus outside to inquire. No one knows where Tigers went.
Zain takes little Yunus to find his mother
They had no food, and little Yunus had no milk powder. Zain came up with all sorts of ways to find food. But he still couldn't survive. As a last resort, he gave young Yunus to the pimp. The pimp promised to send Zain to Sweden. Ask him to go home and get his papers. Then give him a smuggling visa.
Zain was forced to give Yunus Jr. to the pimp
Zain returned to his own dilapidated home. He looked everywhere for his birth certificate. He overheard that his sister Saha had died. An enraged Zain took a sharp knife and ran to the man's house and stabbed him.
Zain knew his sister was gone
Zain was taken away by the police, put in jail, and sentenced to five years in prison.
Mom came to see Zain in prison and told him that she was pregnant again, and if it was a girl, she remembered her name as Saha. This stung Zayn deeply. Zain decided to sue his parents.
The judge asked: Why are underage children married? The father replied, "It is for her good to marry Saha, at least she will have a bed to sleep in." I was born and raised this way, what did I do wrong? If I had a choice, I would probably be better than all of you. Now the neighbors spit on me, and they treat me like a beast. It wasn't what I wanted. I've been told that without children, you're not a man and your kids will be your backbone. But they broke my spine and broke my heart. I cursed the day I got married. Why should I live so miserable? ”
Ignorant and merciless poor father
The judge asked Zain what to sue? Zain said: "I hope that people who can't afford to raise children will not be reborn." All their children saw and heard was violence, insults, beatings, chains, pipes, belts. The gentlest words I've ever heard are: Roll, son of a bitch; roll, you piece of crap. Life is a pile of. No more valuable than my shoes. I thought I could be a good person and be loved by everyone. But God doesn't want us to be like that. He'd rather we do dishwashers. My mom is pregnant with a child who will be just like me. I hope they don't regenerate. ”
Helpless Zain
Judge: They're not going to be born again.
Zain: What about the one in her belly?
The ending of the story is warm: the police find little Yunus, and the baby finally returns to his mother's arms.
Little Yunus
For filming this film, Zane Rafia, the actor of zain in this film, with the help of the crew, obtained a passport and was sent to Sweden. Went to school there, had warm rooms and plenty of food.
Zain took a passport photo