After watching this "What a Home" movie, Zane moved me. The film begins with Zane suing his parents in court. Zane's family fled to Lebanon because of the war in Syria, their parents without identification were unemployed, and the family of seven was crammed into a squalid rental house, living in poverty. Zane's parents, on the other hand, kept giving birth despite their inability to raise their children. Zane, the eldest son in the family, a 12-year-old boy, sells drugs, works as a grocery delivery worker, sells beet juice at night, and protects his sister from bad guys in order to support his sister and brother. His thin body had to bear what he should not bear at this age. One day Zane found blood on the bed, it turned out that his sister had come to menstruation, Zane pulled his sister into the toilet, washed her bloody underwear, and took off his shirt for his sister to pad, and told his sister that no one was allowed to tell her, including her parents. Within days, his parents sold his sister to the grocery store owner, and Zane strongly objected and tried to escape with his sister, but without success. And was reprimanded and scolded by his parents. Zane ran away from home for this.
Zane wanders the streets, looking for work everywhere, and after being rejected again and again, meets Tigerster, a single mother who is also a refugee, and the kind Tigerster takes Zane in, goes to work during the day, and entrusts his 2-year-old son to Zane's care. Here, Zane felt the warmth of family for the first time. Because Tigerst entered the country illegally, needed fake identification documents, and was detained and imprisoned by the police because he could not afford to collect money everywhere, Zane took the 2-year-old child and tried everything to survive, and finally there was no other way, so he sold the child. Zane returns to his rental house, hoping to find proof of his identity, escape the darkness, and live a humble life like a cockroach mouse. In the quarrel to learn that the family has no identity, but also know that his sister was pregnant and bleeding and did not rescue in time and died, angry, he took a knife and rushed out of the house, stabbed the man who bought the sister, and was imprisoned. He accused his own parents, as Zane said: I want people who can't take care of children not to have children, otherwise what will they remember when they grow up? Is it violence, abuse, insult, or beating? Chained, watered by a water pipe, pumped by a belt? The closest words I've ever heard are: "Roll me stinky boy" or "Walk away asshole" Life is like a piece of shit, dirtier than the shoes on my feet, I live in hell every day, suffering like chicken I dream of eating, why fate toss me, I thought we would grow up and grow up to be a good person respectable, and many people loved it. But Allah don't want us to be like this, he wants us to be trampled on like a carpet, the child in your belly will be like me, and I beg my parents not to have children again.
The film unfolds in a flat, straight-forward format, with no music, no beautiful shots, only darkness, dirtiness, violence, selfishness, and greed. Everywhere is filled with the shadow of war, so that human beings live in a complete place, displaced and turbulent. Poverty is numbing, ignorant and depraved. The scariest thing is that it is a true adaptation, and the reality may be more ruthless and cruel. Living in a happy country and family, we can't imagine the sadness and despair in Zane's childhood world, war is the root of all evil, Zane uses stubbornness to fight against this desperate environment, war is guilty, but poverty is not the original sin, Zane for the parents have no sense of responsibility and let their own children survive on the line of life and death, using poverty as an excuse, when he is justified in court, he is even more desperate, his childhood has no color, only sadness, despair is more desperate, when the film ends, Zane throws away a sentence that his mother says when she visits him in prison and delivers a snack: "Beast"! This is the best interpretation of the couple.
"What a Home" is the epitome of the suffering life of refugees after the war, there may be many Zane-like families around the world, in places where we can't see, full of all kinds of evil, Zane is lucky, he is smart, responsible, responsible, more unwilling and brave heart. When the staff was taking a photo of Zane's identity, they said to Zane, smiling, and not the death certificate. At that moment, Zane's smile was so bright, I think Zane has a dawn of hope in his life, and life will be beautiful. Hopefully, as seen at the end of the film, every child who comes into the world may be treated with tenderness. Tribute to nadine and Labaki, the directors of "What a Home".
