What a Home is a Lebanese, French, and American drama film directed by Lebanese director Nadine Rabaki and co-starring Zane Al Rafia and Jodanos Sifero. The film was released on April 29, 2019 in Chinese mainland. The film's protagonist, Zane, is really named Zane Al Rafia. In order to escape the war in Syria, he followed his family to Lebanon, became a refugee, he was found by the casting director in a slum in Beirut, and was selected to play the main role of the film, most of the plot of this film is his personal experience.
Why do his tears often contain tears? He was just a 12-year-old. The film begins with a doctor examining Zane's deciduous teeth to determine his age. Because he didn't know how old he really was. In the end, it was concluded that he was at least 12 years old. And it was this 12-year-old who had been saddled with five years in prison, but while he was serving his sentence, he did not sue his parents over the phone. Why sue his parents, that's all about starting from the beginning.
Zane's family was a tough one because they were war refugees. He has many brothers and sisters, so as the eldest son, he should have been old enough to go to school, but he went to work for the landlord in order to help reduce the burden on the family. The work of small people is quite heavy, and it is normal to send gas cans to others and install them. One day he saw the scene of other people's children being sent home by the school bus after school, he was very envious, and returned home to tell his parents that he also wanted to go to school, at first his father was firmly disagreeable, and his mother was supportive, but the reason for support was that students could get back some daily necessities and leftovers from the banquet from school. These reasons of the mother persuaded the father.
The desire to go to school was not fulfilled, and life was in a worse situation. It started with the marriage of Zane's sister Saha. Saying that it is a marriage is actually just being sent out. One morning, Zane discovers that his sister Saha is on menstrual leave, and he remembers that someone else's girl was married off because of her menstrual leave, and was tortured to death. So he quickly and quietly took his sister to change out of her blood-stained panties, washed her against the faucet, and told her sister not to let her family find out that she had come on menstrual leave, otherwise she would also be sent out and tortured. He asked Saha to change into clean pants and took off his own shirt and rolled it into a roll for Saha to tuck into his pants. After doing this, he took Saha to buy sanitary napkins and told her to throw the sanitary napkins into hiding places and never let her family find them. But the family still knew, and when he came home from work that day, he found that his employer Assad and his father had come to the house, and his sister Saha had put on makeup, and he knew that things were not good, and he tried to kick Assad out, but was strongly stopped by his mother. He knew that things were irretrievable, so he tried to escape with his sister, but when he was ready to go home to pick up his sister, his parents had already dressed up and were about to send her away. He tried everything in his power to stop it, but still failed in his father's fist fight.
After his sister was sent away, he also left the house, and he met a kind woman who offered him a short-lived residence, but then this residence was gone. After running away from home, he went to the Children's Recreation City to look for a job, but did not find it, at this time he met a kind woman, her name is Tigerster, she is also a refugee, from Ethiopia, no IDENTITY. She has a baby who is still swaddling and is a single mother. No one takes the child with them, so they leave the child in the toilet cubicle when they go to work and take it back in their suitcases when they leave work. It was such a difficult woman, she still took Zane in, her house is very old and dilapidated, but can still shelter Zane from the wind and rain. Zane helps her watch the kids at home, and she goes to work to earn money. Although life is hard, there are children who come back from work to laugh and be intimate, and life looks good. Such a life is already a good day for Zane, but the good times are not long, and this kind woman is still imprisoned because she has no IDENTITY card. At this time, Zane can be said to have lost his refuge and has an extra brother who needs to be taken care of. At first, Zane tried his best to take care of the younger brother, but finally he couldn't hold on, and after the stall owner repeatedly promised to take good care of him, he sold his brother for four hundred dollars. He wiped his sad tears with his brother's pacifier in the car home. But if he had the slightest ability, he would not sell this brother, but he was only a child.
Zane returns home, stabs Assad for his sister's affair, and is subsequently sentenced to prison. He should have been guarding his loved ones at an age when he should have been guarded, and he was a righteous and brave child. When Zane returns home and learns that his sister Saha has died, he finds a knife and goes straight to Assad's house despite his family's obstruction, assad is stabbed and Zane is imprisoned. At this time, the plot is connected to the court proceedings at the beginning of the movie. In court, Zane and his parents' words expressed their respective helplessness, which aroused people's thoughts and made people cry. I will write out their words separately for your consideration.
Zane: I want adults to listen to me, and I want people who can't take care of children not to have children, otherwise what can be remembered when they grow up, is it violence, abuse, insult or beating? Chained, watered by a water pipe, pumped by a belt? The most intimate words I've ever heard are 'Roll me stinky boy' or 'Go away bastard', life is like a piece of shit, I thought we would grow up, we would grow up to be good people, we would be respected, there would be a lot of people who liked it, but Allah didn't want us to be like this, he let us be trampled on like a carpet.
Zane's mother: I've worked like a slave all my life, how dare you judge me, how can you judge me. Have you experienced what I have experienced? You will never, because you can't live, you can't even live a nightmare, in exchange for you are me, you have hanged yourself a long time ago.
In this movie, Zane has tears in his eyes in many places, he rarely has a smile on his face, and there are many tear-jerking plots, which not only accuse parents who are born without raising, but also wars that destroy peace, ignorant and backward civilizations, and endless poverty under a vicious circle. There is no one who does not want to live a good life, but is it not that everyone has the right and conditions, the refugees who do not even have a single identity document, who cannot seek medical treatment, who cannot go to school, who cannot have a serious job, who live like "parasites", on whom they can make a living and pick up their dignity. In the movie, Zane's parents are indeed wrong to have children, but the reason behind it is the backward culture and ignorance that have caused their tragedy, which is also the fault of the whole environment.
This is a movie worth watching, and it's worth the time everyone takes to watch. Finally, write a few post-viewing testimonials. Born without raising, how to be home. War destroyed my homeland, what is the point. Poverty tramples my flesh, how to dwell. Ignorance binds my soul, how to respect.