Capharnaum:
A Cute little 12 year old, who can smile so beautiful, has played the big man with attitude and anger and grin for the sake of portraying a character beyond his age... The smile at the end is the best end to CAPERNAUM...Zain And Yonas(Treasure) have not acted , but just UNACTED and re-written acting...
The technical crew of Capernaum has just walked through the streets and shot candid shots and edited in to a movie-Thats how we will experience while watching this epic war between an angry son who files a law suit against his parents, who are incapable of raising kids.
The story revolves around illegal immigrants and the people of the slum in Beirut.
Zain leaves his home (he is 12) when is younger sister Sahar is married to Aasaad (Their master) and there he meets Tigest an Ethiopian refugee who is trying to get forged papers such that she can get everything for her 10 months old son, who otherwise will be taken away from her.Then when Zain comes to know that Sahar is dead, he stabs Aasaad for causing her death.
The relationship between Zain and Sagar and then the scenes between Zain and Yonas-Tigest's son, never looked like they were part of cinema but we were just sitting near them and admiring these kids in our home.
When Tigest gets arrested and Zain steals a bottle of milk from a child to feed him, in a world which doesn't give the basic necessities-Stealing cannot be called a crime until it's a greed, Yonas rejects the milk, a 10 month old kid, why will he reject it? Left to audience imagination... But the scene, is a must watch and you will never see a better scene in world cinema than this between a 12 year old and a 10 months old...
The movie was never in my list until I saw this in BookMyShow... But now it's their in my all time favourite list, just because , the magic of Zain and Yonas may never be repeated...
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